glide

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of GLIDE

to move or proceed smoothly and readily <looking for a college course that he could just glide through>

Synonyms bowl, breeze, brush, coast, cruise, drift, glide, roll, sail, skim, slide, slip, stream, sweep, whisk

Related Words fly, race, rush, speed

Near Antonyms limp, lumber, plod, stumble, trudge; shamble, shuffle; stamp, stomp, stump, tramp; labor, toil

Antonyms flounder, struggle

to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings <a kite gliding on the autumn breeze>

Synonyms aviate, glide, plane, soar, wing

Related Words drift, float, hang, hover, waft; coast, cruise, sail, sweep; dart, flit, flutter; catapult, helicopter, jet, orbit, rocket; dive, stoop

to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air <water striders gliding along the surface of the brook>

Synonyms drift, glide, hang, hover, poise, ride, sail, swim, waft

Related Words bob, dangle, suspend; buoy; balloon, raft

Near Antonyms dive, lunge, plunge; dip, immerse, submerge, submerse

Antonyms settle, sink

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