GLIDES Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

glides

verb

Definition of glides next

present tense third-person singular of glide

as in flows

to move or proceed smoothly and readily looking for a college course that he could just glide through

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as in flies

to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings a kite gliding on the autumn breeze

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as in hovers

to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air water striders gliding along the surface of the brook

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Recent Examples of glides Each treatment requires just three minutes, and the wand’s rotating head easily glides over the forehead, cheeks, under eyes, jawline and neck. —

Bestreviews, Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2026 From the world’s vantage point, Los Angeles can look like a place that glides serenely along beneath a beatific sun. —

Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026 As Luna glides into your amicable 7th house, your partnerships have a chance to deepen without putting anyone on the back foot, so to speak. —

Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026 The easy-to-use roller design features a cooling metal applicator that gently glides across the neck's contours, massaging the lightweight formula into skin without pulling or tugging skin. —

Tory Johnson, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026 True to its name, the Butter Melt Bronzer glides on like butter and melts seamlessly into skin, delivering a silky-smooth finish that never veers cakey, muddy, or heavy on dry skin. —

Lily Wohlner, Allure, 11 Mar. 2026 As the Coast Starlight approaches the Bay Area, the train glides past marshlands, open water, and distant city skylines before continuing toward California’s Central Coast. —

Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2026 The Florida Panthers’ captain and top-line center then glides into the left circle, quickly changes direction and fires toward the net. —

Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026 There’s a reason curlers sweep as the stone glides across the ice in search of the house — or, better yet, the button. —

Keith McMillan, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026

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Roughly 20% of crude and natural gas normally flows through the Strait of Hormuz, which remains all but closed to oil tankers and other shipping traffic because of the war.

— Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
An estimated 9,000 gallons reached the San Diego River, which flows past Dog Beach.

— Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026