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glissade

NOUN
  1. (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet
VERB
  1. perform a glissade, in ballet

How To Use glissade In A Sentence

  • Frankly, I'm not built for glissades, arabesques, entrechats or mincing around en pointe.
  • Transition steps, like a glissade or pas de bourrée, are often as important as pirouettes.
  • Terray set his teeth, and glissaded down like a madman. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
  • The rush of water, the glissade of foam, and the slow withdrawal before the next rush. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • A long, lingering snow patch gave a superb standing glissade back down to the col before the last scramble up to An Caisteal, the castle.
  • ‘I've got to go see them,’ Gary says, and glissades down a steep-sided bowl to the water.
  • We didn't get to use words like "belay" or "glissade" but we felt victorious just the same. Vail Daily - Top Stories
  • The trees were supervising the long glissade from summer into autumn. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • The time you glissaded down a ski trail on a trash bag. Oh, What Fun It Is to Ride
  • The party glissaded down Roger's Glacier, crossed rocks and swollen streams, ate supper at a hut, then descended to the lower camp at 9: 00 pm.
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