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glissade

[gli-sahd, -seyd] / 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

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

We glissaded down a steep blue ice slope; to brake was impossible, for the sledge had taken charge.

From South with Scott by Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Baron Mountevans

Where the slopes were not seamed with open crevasses we "glissaded," which is a very expeditious and exhilarating method of getting down a mountain, although unsafe unless one is certain of his ground.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various

He glissaded from, the austere altitudes of his self-respect, and his next words were already disingenuous.

From Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

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

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

The trapper speeds down the snowy slope, striding, sliding, coasting, vaulting over hummocks of snow, glissading down the drifts, leaping rather than running.

From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut

A dark speck had suddenly detached itself from the ball upon which the vane stood, and could now be seen glissading with horrible swiftness down the slope of the spire.

From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Laurence Housman




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