glide path

noun

1

: glide slope

2

: a course of action that leads easily to an expected outcome

While Markey has been a fine member of Congress for decades, he isn't owed a glide path to another term.

—Adrian Walker

… a state that invests more in locking up prisoners than in opening doors to education is on a glide path to mediocrity.

—John Stobo

Elite law schools are not always a glide path to becoming a partner at a big law firm.

—Elizabeth Olson

Examples of glide path in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Salter has said the company is on the glide path to get to $50 billion in sales, but to get to his goal of $100 billion, Authentic is going to have to keep buying brands of scale. —Evan Clark, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025

Democrat Adelita Grijalva has for months been on a glide path to become Arizona's next member of Congress. —Laura Gersony, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025

The bill is likely on a glide path to the desk of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. —Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2025

The correction put Darvish on a glide path, recalling some of his best work in five years with the Padres. —Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for glide path

• aftermath
• multipath
• psychopath
• bloodbath
• footpath
• towpath
• warpath
• hath
• lath
• math
• rath
• spath