glider

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  1. noun A light engineless aircraft designed to glide after being towed aloft or launched from a catapult.
  2. noun A swinging couch suspended from a vertical frame.
  3. noun A device that aids gliding.

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  • So I got up and I jumped onto my cardio glider, which is a full-body, full-exercise machine. —  Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight
  • A moment of panic rushed through her when she realized he went toward the holding bay, where his glider was. —  O'Clare, Lorie - Sex Slaves Trilogy (v1.0)
  • Leaning against his arm that rested on the controls of the glider, his untamed strength rose through her, feeding her hunger. —  O'Clare, Lorie - Sex Slaves Trilogy (v1.0)
  • We are going to hit The bomber was no great shakes as a glider, and the best Doc had been able to do by holding it at its flattest angle of flight was to keep from hitting the rapidly sloping sides of the mountain ring which they had hit. —  119 - The Time Terror
  • Jakielski especially liked the sugar glider, a marsupial similar in shape and characteristics to the flying squirrel. —  News for InsideNova.com
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  1. from Middle English ∗glidere, glydare; from glide + -er.
 

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