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means Moving smoothly through the air or across a surface under your own momentum, with little or no visible effort to stay aloft or in motion.

from From Old English 'glīdan,' meaning to move smoothly or slip along — a word with deep Germanic roots shared by relatives like German 'gleiten' and Dutch 'glijden.' The family of words clusters around the idea of frictionless, slippery movement; 'glide' is a close cousin to 'slide' in sense if not in direct descent, both conjuring that sensation of surfaces offering no resistance. The '-ing' simply catches the action already underway, mid-slip, mid-air, mid-grace.