Glissading

Word GLISSADING
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Definitions and meanings of "Glissading"

What do we mean by glissading?

To perform a glissade.

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The word "glissading" in example sentences

As you can see, an ice ax has three sharp “ends,” an adze (used for cutting steps in steep ice or snow) and a pick (used for arresting a fall and for securing holds on steep hard ice and snow), both mounted on the “head” of the ax, and the spike (used as a balance aid, for belaying a slip which has not yet become a slide, and for steering and braking during the deliberate form of sliding called glissading). ❋ Unknown (2005)

Within minutes Sandra was ambulatory and we were glissading down the lava-rubble slope into the canyon. ❋ Richard Bangs (2010)

Some times you do really stupid and painful things, like glissading (see video below) down the backside of the Gore Range. ❋ Tim Romano (2007)

Teemu was glissading down the slope, using his shield as a snow saucer. ❋ Michael Dahl (2001)

The sun was streaming in the window, long glissading columns of incandescent light. ❋ Stabenow, Dana (1998)

Then Fermour bunched his stocky form and dived out into the dark for Wantage, who was blaspheming quietly near the floor; glissading off the wall, Fermour seized him, braked himself with an out-thrust heel, and floated softly back on the rebound. ❋ Aldiss, Brian (1959)

The quick scrape of a chair in the living room and the sound of hasty footsteps glissading on the throw-rug in the hall heralded the approach of Timmy's father. ❋ Francis Donovan (N/A)

Then the brakes were tested for the first time by driving for a short distance uphill to the south and glissading down the slope back to the Hut. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)

A dark speck had suddenly detached itself from the ball upon which the vane stood, and could now be seen glissading with horrible swiftness down the slope of the spire. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)

How lucky we have my glissading marks to guide us. ❋ Unknown (1891)

I hear that the process is named glissading in this country. ❋ Unknown (1887)

"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." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

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. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

"It is not all glissading," he said, as they continued the descent by clambering down the face of a precipice. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Soon after the ramblers had begun their return journey, they came to a slope which they thought might be descended by sliding or "glissading." ❋ Unknown (1859)

The side of this berg was a steep slope of hard snow, so steep that they thought it unwise to attempt the descent by what in Switzerland is termed glissading. ❋ Unknown (1859)

His version of its horrors was laughable in the extreme, especially when, coming to the episode of the resurrection of the nuns, he contrived to give the most comical effect of a whole crowd -- gibbering, glissading women greeting one another with the rapid music of the original scene, to which he adapted the words -- ❋ Fanny Kemble (1851)

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