glider

English

Etymology

From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide +‎ -er.

A motor glider in flight.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: glī'də(r), IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaɪdə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaɪdɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪdə(r)

Noun

glider (plural gliders)

Glider in Conway's Life

1. One who glides.
2. Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
3. A pilot of glider aircraft.
4. Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the gliding possum.
5. Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”)
   • 2007, Frances Gruber Safford, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

     The left drawer runner is probably replaced. Nail holes on the upper surface of the stretchers suggest the piece once had a bottom shelf. Modern metal gliders have been added under the feet.

6. (mathematics) In the Game of Life cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
7. A kind of garden swing.
   • Tom Reamy, Blind Voices

     Francine sat in the glider on the porch, swinging lightly, her mind a thousand miles away. The chain squeaked a little, almost like a cricket.

   • 2011, Mary Biever, He Uses It For Good! (page 5)

     Then I went into the backyard, which had a flower-covered arbor, a small garden wall, and room behind it for a garden. Swings and gliders adorned the yard.

8. A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.

Hyponyms

• hang glider, motor glider, paraglider, sailplane

Derived terms

• glider gun
• sugar glider

Translations

one who glides

• Finnish: liitäjä (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

aircraft

• Afrikaans: sweeftuig
• Albanian: avion pa motor
• Arabic: طائرة شراعية
• Belarusian: планёр m (planjór)
• Bengali: গ্লাইডার (glaiḍar)
• Bulgarian: планер (bg) m (planer)
• Burmese: ဂလိုက်ဒါလေယာဉ် (ga.luikdaleyany)
• Catalan: planador m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 滑翔機／滑翔机 (waat⁶ coeng⁴ gei¹), 滑翔机 (waat⁶ coeng⁴ gei¹)

  Mandarin: 滑翔機／滑翔机 (zh) (huáxiángjī), 滑翔机 (zh) (huáxiángjī)

• Czech: kluzák m, větroň m
• Danish: svævefly (da) n
• Dutch: zweefvliegtuig (nl) n
• Esperanto: glisilo (eo), aerglitilo
• Estonian: purilennuk, plaaner
• Finnish: purjelentokone (fi), liitokone (fi)
• French: planeur (fr) m
• Galician: planador (gl) m
• Georgian: პლანერი (ṗlaneri)
• German: Segelflugzeug (de) n, Gleiter (de) m, Gleitflugzeug n
• Greek: ανεμόπτερο (el) n (anemóptero)
• Hebrew: דאון (he) m
• Hindi: ग्लाइडर (glāiḍar)
• Hungarian: vitorlázó repülőgép (hu), vitorlázórepülő
• Icelandic: sviffluga f
• Irish: faoileoir m
• Italian: aliante (it) m, veleggiatore m
• Japanese: グライダー (ja) (guraidā), 滑空機 (ja) (かっくうき, kakkūki)
• Kannada: ತೇಲು ವಿಮಾನ (kn) (tēlu vimāna)
• Kazakh: планер (planer)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 글라이더 (geullaideo)
• Latin: aëronavis velivola
• Latvian: planieris m
• Lithuanian: sklandytuvas m
• Luxembourgish: Segelfliger m
• Macedonian: едрилица f (edrilica)
• Malayalam: ഗ്ലൈഡർ (glaiḍaṟ)
• Manx: foilleyr m
• Maori: waka rereangi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: seilfly n, seglfly n, glidefly n

  Nynorsk: seglfly n, glidefly n

• Persian: گلایدر (fa) (glâyder)
• Polish: szybowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: planador (pt) m
• Romanian: planor (ro) n
• Russian: планёр (ru) m (planjór)
• Sicilian: alianti m
• Slovak: klzák m, vetroň m
• Slovene: jadralno letalo n
• Spanish: planeador (es) m, velero (es) m
• Swedish: glidflygplan
• Tamil: மிதவை வானூர்தி (mitavai vāṉūrti)
• Thai: เครื่องร่อน (krʉ̂ʉang-rɔ̂n)
• Turkish: planör (tr)
• Ukrainian: пла́нер m (pláner)
• Vietnamese: tàu lượn
• Võro: lauglinnuk
• Welsh: gleider m
• Yiddish: גלידער (glider)

pilot

• Bulgarian: планер (bg) m (planer)
• Czech: plachtař (cs) m
• Finnish: purjelentäjä (fi), riippuliitäjä
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: vitorlázórepülős
• Italian: volovelista m
• Romanian: planorist (ro) m, planoristă (ro) f

animal with the ability to glide

• German: Gleiter (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

cap affixed to base of legs of furniture

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

math: particular configuration

• Finnish: kulkuri (fi)
• French: planeur (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: планёр (ru) m (planjór)

type of garden swing

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

type of vehicle

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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Lithuanian: sklandytuvas m (1, 2)
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Further reading

• glider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gilder, gilder, girdle, girled, gridle, regild, ridgel

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Verb

glider

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of glida.