glissade

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

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

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

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

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

When you are glissading down a snowy Alpine slope, you cannot stop when you like, though you strike your alpenstock ever so deep into the powdery snow.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren

In a minute, he was up again and off, sliding, leaping from hummock to hummock, glissading down the little inclines, speeding like a winged Mercury of the North.

From The Wilderness Trail by Frank Williams