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Plural of glide

regular plural

The plural of glide is glides.

Forms of glide

Singularglide /ˈɡlaɪd/
Pluralglides /ɡlaɪdz/
Countablecountable

Glides in a sentence

  • He was still stroking Radar, long glides of his hand from nape to tail.2022, Stephen King, chapter 8, in Fairy Tale, page 132. From the entry nape
  • "Hobson's Choice." He was still stroking Radar, long glides of his hand from nape to tail.2022, Stephen King, chapter 8, in Fairy Tale […], New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry Hobson's choice
  • She glides along, her skirt touching the grass top as she sways to the beat of unwritten songs.2008, Chris Fabry, Dogwood, Tyndale, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry grass top
  • At the same time, it glides over the personal traumas that the one-child policy must cause among innumerable Chinese.1984 February 14, John Corry, “Birth Curb in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry one-child policy
  • Either I slide the puck right onto AJ's feet, or it glides to a stop in the dead center of the table.2015, Elisabeth Staab, At the Stars. From the entry suckage

Meaning of glide

  1. verb To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
  2. verb To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
  3. verb To cause to glide.

Full definition of glide

Questions about the plural of glide

What is the plural of glide?
The plural of glide is glides.
Is glide countable?
Glide is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glide (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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