1. aircraft without engines that fly by using air currents
2. rocking chairs or swinging seats that move smoothly back and forth
3. animals that can glide through the air using flaps of skin or membranes
Usage: zoology

Examples

• The gliders soared silently above the valley using thermal currents.
• Pilots train for months before flying gliders solo.
• She sat in one of the porch gliders watching the sunset.
• The nursery had comfortable gliders for feeding babies.
• Sugar gliders are small marsupials that glide between trees.
• Flying squirrels are common gliders found in North American forests.