glissade
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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
It was pouring downward—pouring itself downward—in a glorious, relentless glissade over the meadow slopes on a straight path for the village.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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
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
Happily we had an easy course down a snow gradient, which we glissaded in very unorthodox style.
From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
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
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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
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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
Small boys and girls amuse themselves with glissading down the steep grassy slopes.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson