Glide may refer to:

  • Gliding flight, heavier-than-air flight without the use of thrust
  • Gliding, a recreational activity and competitive air sport[

Science and technology

Computing

  • Glide (API), a 3D graphics interface
  • Glide OS, a web desktop
  • Glide (software), an instant video messenger
  • Glide (docking), a molecular modeling software

Other uses in science and technology

  • Glide reflection, a geometrical transformation
  • Bacterial gliding, a form of motility in biology

Music

  • Glide (album), by Jerry Douglas, 2008
  • "Glide", a song by Phish from the 1992 album A Picture of Nectar
  • "Glide", a song by Stone Temple Pilots from the 1999 album No. 4
  • Glide (music synthesis), a musical synthesizer parameter equivalent to portamento
  • Glissando, an unbroken slide from one musical pitch to another

People

  • Glide, a stage name of guitarist Will Sergeant (born 1958)
  • The Glide, nickname of Clyde Drexler (born 1962), an American basketball player

Other uses

  • Glide (automobile), manufactured by the Bartholomew Company, 1902–1920
  • Glide (linguistics), or semivowel
  • Glide (Martian crater)
  • Glide, Oregon, a place in the United States
  • Glide High School
  • Glide, a Pillow Pal toy
  • Glide FM, a former local radio station in Oxfordshire, UK
  • Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco, California, United States
  • Glide Foundation
  • Oral-B Glide, a dental floss
  • USS Glide, the name of two ships of the US Navy

See also

  • Glider (disambiguation)
  • Gliding (disambiguation)