glissaded; glissading
1
: to perform a ballet glissade
2
: to slide in a standing or squatting position down a snow-covered slope without the aid of skis
glissader
noun
1
: a gliding step in ballet
2
: the action of glissading
Examples of glissade in a Sentence
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Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
The solo climber was glissading, or sliding down on the snow using his ice ax to control his speed, on Sunday, Aug. 10, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest said in a news release.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Friction associated with the sliding and heat rising from Earth’s core together form streams of meltwater just below the sheet, lubricating the ice in some areas and facilitating those areas’ glissade off the rock and into the ocean.
—Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 5 May 2022
As of Saturday, some snow was left at the top of the mountain but racers shouldn’t plan on glissading down it.
—Author: Kat Sorensen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
Last year, a 24-year-old man was glissading down the pass and plunged over the edge of a waterfall hole.
—Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 5 June 2017
Hamilton Cain, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
Stocks continued their glissade in June, although the OBJ Outdoor Index fared slightly better than the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq.
—Steve Larese, Outside Online, 8 July 2022
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Verb
While glissading down from Camp II, an avalanche struck, sending Chouinard, Rick Ridgeway, Jonathan Wright, and Kim Schmitz on a quarter-mile ride over a 30-foot cliff.
—Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
The solo climber was glissading, or sliding down on the snow using his ice ax to control his speed, on Sunday, Aug. 10, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest said in a news release.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Friction associated with the sliding and heat rising from Earth’s core together form streams of meltwater just below the sheet, lubricating the ice in some areas and facilitating those areas’ glissade off the rock and into the ocean.
—Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 5 May 2022
As of Saturday, some snow was left at the top of the mountain but racers shouldn’t plan on glissading down it.
—Author: Kat Sorensen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
Last year, a 24-year-old man was glissading down the pass and plunged over the edge of a waterfall hole.
—Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 5 June 2017
Noun
Twists and torques, leaps and lunges, relevé and glissade—the body is the canvas upon which the choreographer paints murals of social flux and personal epiphany.
—Hamilton Cain, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
Stocks continued their glissade in June, although the OBJ Outdoor Index fared slightly better than the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq.
—Steve Larese, Outside Online, 8 July 2022
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“Glissade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glissade. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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