Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "glide" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

boostglide downglide glidant glide bomb glide kip glide pad glide path glide ratio glide reflection glide slope glide time glideless glideosome glider glideslope gliding gliding vowel glip handglide hang glide hang-glide hypersonic glide vehicle midglide off-glide offglide on-glide onglide outglide overglide paraglide upglide voice glide

Context

air travel fencing phonetics phonology

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

aviate displace flight fly flying go locomote motion move move movement phone pilot sound speech sound travel

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

bell glide

Type Of (IsA)

flight

Manner Of

fly move travel

Related Terms

blade break cap dancing flying fish furniture glede glider gliding kite leg offglide onglide semivowel sound step waltz

Synonym Network

coast semivowel slide

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.