MEANING
1. To move with smooth, apparently effortless continuity.
2. To fly using lift while descending or without active propulsion.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- glide across water
- glide into view
On the page
The boat glided beyond the reflected lights.
Word forms
- Base
- glide
- Past tense
- glided
- Past participle
- glided
- Present participle
- gliding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- glide
- Present continuous
- am/is/are gliding
- Present perfect
- have/has glided
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been gliding
- Past
- glided
- Past continuous
- was/were gliding
- Past perfect
- had glided
- Past perfect continuous
- had been gliding
- Future
- will glide
- Future continuous
- will be gliding
- Future perfect
- will have glided
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been gliding
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: glide; glides; glided; glided; gliding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: glides.
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