Glissade [verb]

Definition of Glissade:

glide

Synonyms of Glissade:

Stream

Skip

Float

Waft

Skate

Skim

Slip

Trip

Decline

Sail

Spiral

Descend

Roll

Soar

Shoot

Run

Slink

Drift

Coast

Fly

Slither

Flit

Lapse

Flow

Scud

Slide

Wing

Skirr

Smooth along


Opposite/Antonyms of Glissade:


Sentence/Example of Glissade:

In Switzerland he had studied the glissade, but when one carries a heavy load to balance on a precipitous slope is difficult.

To shorten the return journey I was tempted to glissade down what appeared to be a snow-filled ravine, which was very steep.

The remaining steep slopes were also descended by glissade, and we afterwards marched cheerily over the gentler inclines.

By means of ropes attached to these I proposed to scour the mountain along the line of the glissade.

The glissade lasted but a moment, nevertheless it recalled to his mind a picture which was indelibly stamped in his memory.

It is called the hashiri (glissade); and we are to descend at a run!

The survivors could see the doomed four struggling vainly to stop the terrible glissade.

It was in deep winter weather and Timur had to be let down the snows by glissade in a basket guided by ropes.

We crept up it, and from the summit descended by a glissade to the frontal portion of the cavern.

The first part of the way down to the saddle we attempted a glissade.