sliding
/ˈslaɪdɪŋ/
sliding is the present participle and gerund of slide.
Noun
sliding (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)
Meaning of slide
Verb
slide (third-person singular simple present slides, present participle sliding, simple past slid, past participle slid or slidden)
- To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
- He slid the boat across the grass.
- To move on a low-friction surface.
- The car slid on the ice.
- To drop down and skid into a base.
- Jones slid into second.
- To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- He slid while going around the corner.
- Synonyms:
- slip
- To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- to alter the meaning of a question by sliding in a word
- To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
- He slid me a dirty look.
Adjective
sliding (not comparable)
- Designed or able to slide.
- Our yard is just outside the sliding door.
Forms of sliding
| plural | slidings |
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Words formed from sliding
Phrases with sliding
Words that rhyme with sliding
- riding
- confiding
- abiding
- biding
- gliding
- guiding
- hiding
- paragliding
- striding
- backsliding
- bestriding
- betiding
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blindsiding
- briding
- broadsiding
- chiding
- coinciding
- colliding
- coresiding
- deciding
- deriding
- disciding
- dividing
- eliding
- griding
- hagriding
- joyriding
- misguiding
- niding
- nondividing
- outriding
- overriding
- overstriding
- peroxiding
- presiding
- priding
- providing
- redeciding
- redividing
- residing
- siding
- subsiding
- suiciding
Questions about sliding
- What does sliding mean?
- Sliding means the motion of something that slides.
- What is sliding the present participle and gerund of?
- Sliding is the present participle and gerund of slide.
- What part of speech is sliding?
- Sliding can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sliding?
- Sliding is pronounced /ˈslaɪdɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of sliding?
- The plural of sliding is slidings.
Words near sliding in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sliding (page history and authors); slide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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