Main entry: slide, glide, coast
Definition: the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
Usage: his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill; the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope
Main entry: chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough
Definition: sloping channel through which things can descend
Main entry: slide, lantern slide
Definition: a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
Main entry: microscope slide, slide
Definition: a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
Main entry: slide, sliding board, playground slide
Definition: plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
Definition: (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
Usage: the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides
Main entry: slide
Definition: (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
Main entry: skid, slew, slide, slip, slue
Definition: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
Usage: the wheels skidded against the sidewalk
Definition: to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
Usage: They slid through the wicket in the big gate
Main entry: slide
Definition: move smoothly along a surface
Usage: He slid the money over to the other gambler