Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of slide
Children were swinging and sliding in the playground.
nounsliding (plural slidings)
plural slidings
- The motion of something that slides.
Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]
1931, Mary Hunter Austin, Starry Adventure, page 274 - skeleton (winter sport)
adjectivesliding (not comparable)
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian плъзгащ се
- плъзгащ се (plăzgašt se)able to slide
Catalan corredís
- corredísable to slide
Finnish liukuva, liu’unta
- liukuvaable to slide
- liu’untaable to slide
- liuku-able to slide
French coulissant
- coulissantable to slide
Italian scorrevole
- scorrevoleable to slide
Spanish corredizo, corredero
- corredizoable to slide
- correderoable to slide
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with sliding
providingridingdecidinghidingguidingdividingsidingpresidingglidingoverridingabidingparaglidingcollidingcoincidingstridingbidingsubsidingbackslidingconfidingchidingderidingjoyridingblindsidingnondividing
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Cite this entry
APA
sliding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sliding
MLA
“sliding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sliding. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sliding,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sliding.
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