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
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
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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 glissaded down the first few hundred feet, till we brought up standing at the head of an incipient gorge, likewise smothered in snow.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell
As he did so two of her companions came sliding down to their assistance, and the four glissaded back to the deck-house amidst several inches of very cold water as the following roll began.
From The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss
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
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
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
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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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“The snow is often a little treacherous in a place like this, herr; and as it is so loose we shall have to be careful about glissading when we get beyond the rocks yonder.”
From The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by Frederic William Burton
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