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glissade

[gli-sahd, -sayd] / glɪˈsɑd, -ˈseɪd /


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But the body found Monday was a bit south of the spot where hikers typically glissade — on a steep, icy section of trail known as the 99 Switchbacks, according to Stine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

From hiking a few miles to learning how to use an ice ax and glissade down a mountain, we trained and grew stronger together to ultimately reach the summit.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022

She went to see Lauren Anderson — one of the first black ballerinas to become a principal dancer in a major company — glissade across the stage at the Houston Ballet.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2018

You reverse what you tried for going up and aim for the sandiest places in order to glissade down.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2014

For the glissade, Nancy glided over a few feet to the left.

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene

But as I glissaded down the slope, it seemed to me also that a part of him might be pleased by our gesture, simply as an indication that his books had gotten read.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2014

Regulus wriggled from side to side, glissaded down one dune, up another.

From The Tarn of Eternity by Frank Tymon

We sat down and glissaded in the dark with only the vaguest idea where we should end.

From Running Water by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Happily we had an easy course down a snow gradient, which we glissaded in very unorthodox style.

From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

Notwithstanding this, they had boldly glissaded down the Couloir du Lion, J. J. Carrel having his shoeless foot tied up in a pocket handkerchief.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper

At about 7 a.m., around 300 dancers — boys and girls, men and women — took turns glissading across the concrete at 44th Street and Seventh Avenue, which was transformed into a scene from “Fame.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2019

Now they can, on a U.S. tour with the Ice Capades, which features the pair glissading and grinning all the way.

From Time Magazine Archive

They roll out a cake for the dancing duos, who pucker up and blow out the candles before glissading into a waltz.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hear that the process is named glissading in this country.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The side of this berg was a steep slope of hard snow, so steep that they thought it unwise to attempt the descent by what in Switzerland is termed glissading.

From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne




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