glissade

plural glissades

1. A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps.
2. balletA gliding step beginning and ending in a demi-plié in second position.
3. A move in some dances such as the galop.
4. fencingA fencing move that may disarm the opponent.

present singular third person glissades · participle present glissading · participle past glissaded · past glissaded

1. To perform a glissade.

   He slithers like a limbo dancer under alder thickets girding the cliff faces. Trailing diamond sprays of ice, he glissades fearlessly across snowfields that plunge into blue infinity.

   2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic

   1 more example

   Flinging himself on hands and knees he dragged the girl down with him. As he did so two of her companions came sliding down to their assistance, and the four glissaded back to the deckhouse as the following roll began.

   1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 5, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC