glider
IPA: gɫˈaɪdɝ
noun
- One who glides.
- Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
- A pilot of glider aircraft.
- Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the gliding possum.
- Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”)
- A kind of garden swing.
- (cellular automata) In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
- (by extension) Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.
- A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly that glide on out-held wings while flying, such as the common glider, Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.
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Examples of "glider" in Sentences
- Hang glider for them that's not a glider.
- Make a better hang glider and para glider article.
- That a hang glider is a glider does seem to be due weight.
- The category called glider can be linked to glider aircraft.
- In the postscript episode, the unnamed character travels by glider.
- However at the Wasserkuppe meets in the 1920s were soaring gliders.
- Glider activity abounds, with glider instruction available on the field.
- The Gimli Glider is not a glider, and is outside the scope of this article.
- The 1901 Wright Glider was the second of the brothers' experimental gliders.
- The superhero avoids the attack, leading the glider to impale Norman instead.
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