Flying vs. Gliding — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to aviation

Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.Gliding as a sport began in the 1920s.

Capable of or engaged in flight

To move in a smooth, effortless manner

Situated, extending, or functioning in the air

To move silently and furtively

Swiftly moving; fleet

To occur or pass imperceptibly

Done or performed swiftly in or as if in the air

To fly without propulsion from wings or an engine.

Brief; hurried

(Music) To blend one tone into the next; slur.

Capable of swift deployment or response; extremely mobile.

(Linguistics) To articulate a glide in speech.

Set by hoisting from the deck. Used of a sail.

To cause to move or pass smoothly, silently, or imperceptibly

Secured only at the corners. Used of a sail.

To operate or fly (an aircraft) without propulsion from wings or an engine

Flight in an aircraft or spacecraft.

The act of gliding.

The piloting or navigation of an aircraft or spacecraft.

(Music) A slur.

That flies or can fly.

The transitional sound produced by passing from the articulatory position of one speech sound to that of another.

Brief or hurried.

See semivowel.

Capable of speed

The action or motion of something that glides.

Not secured by yards.

The hobby, sport, or act of flying a glider.

Capable of foiling.

Present participle of glide

Designating a cattle brand consisting of a letter extended on both sides with tilde-like curved lines.

That moves or changes with a glide.

Present participle of fly

(employment) Employing flexitime.

An act of flight.

The activity of flying a glider

The action or process of sustained motion through the air.

The action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water.

Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.

An instance of traveling by air;

Capable of or engaged in flight;

Moving swiftly;

Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air;

Designed for swift movement or action;

Of or relating to passage through the air especially aviation;

Hurried and brief;

Done swiftly in or as if in the air; used e.g. of a racing start in which runners are already in motion as they cross the starting line;