Let's face it; you're getting too old to go hang gliding. 让我们正视事实,你上了年纪不能参加悬挂式滑翔运动。
The act of gliding. 滑动滑动的行为
A gliding step in ballet. 横滑步芭蕾舞中的横滑舞步
gliding
[ noun ] the activity of flying a glider <noun.act>
Glide \Glide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gliding}.] [AS. gl[=i]dan; akin to D. glijden, OHG. gl[=i]tan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E. glad.] 1. To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice.
The river glideth at his own sweet will. --Wordsworth.
2. (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
3. (A["e]ronautics) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Recent commercials for California Cooler, a wine drink, show happy surfers gliding easily on the waves to '60s music.
But if it rains at Edwards, Hauck and Covey could end up gliding down to one of the two dazzlingly white, criss-cross runways at the White Sands dry lake bed.
Also, unlike many Eastern European dance steps which involve hopping, the women in this company do more of a gliding step.
The 250 musicians of the Florida A&M band, gliding backwards in a Michael Jackson moonwalk down the Champs-Elysees before a crowd estimated at 1 million, offered a tribute to American soul star James Brown.
The forest will be shady, capercallies gliding between the great pines; humans will play a part as mushroom-gatherers harvesting the fruits of the forest floor.
It is like gliding," says Ron Forster, a railbike promoter and the owner of an organic pizzeria in Hillsboro, N.H. Mr. Forster is also trying to sell the idea of railbiking on abandoned track as a sport for the blind and handicapped.
It wasn't gliding at all," he said.
Prices start at Pounds 51 (for gliding) and go up to Pounds 361 (for tandem skydiving).
For those with tickets through to Chongqing, it was four days of struggle against the currents, and a deckside seat to an unscheduled, tragic entertainment. After a few hours of gliding through the water, the first of the public announcements came.