glissade

This is the easiest type of glissade and generally provides the best feeling control.

The method is slower but more controlled than the standing glissade.

Another climber in 1987 lost his life on a glissade during descent.

Her voice went from contralto to soprano in an easy glissade.

"But the glissade assemble changes according to how fast or slow it is.

The standing glissade is best performed over firm snow with a soft top layer.

Also a method of stopping in a controlled glissade.

It is also less tiring than a standing or crouching glissade in softer snow.

On a final minor glissade of the music the Francher kid slid to the ground.

"After that there's only the Glissade into the Med Basin.

They came to the end of the Glissade after four hours and floated in the pale waters of a great bitter lake.

This technique is called glissade.

And then, suddenly, there he was, all pink and gray, lofting through the water with a limber glissade.

The program's theme is partnering, and he will guide them in steps like a glissade and an arabesque.

And the gown-I rose, and it swirled around my hips in a crimson glissade.

Down one final glissade.

In this glissading position one has a better view of route hazards, and increased maneuverability over a sitting glissade.

This descent is particularly steep and frustrating, as the rocks are too large to scree glissade, while small enough to easily twist an ankle.

"From her first glissade onstage I knew that I was looking at a world where I would be safe."

"You flatter me ..." A series, or glissade, of tiny belches interrupted us.

Glissade may mean:

"Adult emotions of love and grief glissade across the mask of childhood, a childhood skin-deep."

Glissade (1975 - 1985)

Glissade was a roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia.

The standing glissade is often the preferred method if the person glissading is skilled in doing so and snow conditions allow.

Early in the season you are able to glissade a snow field between 250 to 500 ft long.

In the 'schrund, I coiled the rope and started to glissade.

I had the great good fortune to be adopted by this man; he taught me how to climb; in particular, how to glissade.

"Once I got her sliding," he explains, "I'd let go and glissade down in front of her.

First one front leg and then the other rose high, rolled and extended far forward while the horse's rear legs seem to glissade close to the ground in a race to keep up.

Of course, this sounds all rather obvious, but as a matter of fact, he was the only man who had learnt and who taught to glissade in this thorough way." "

A tall, agile, sudden man who could glissade down loose sand like a skier, and run, once he reached level ground, with the grace of a greyhound and the candour of a child.

In situations where they must break trail downhill and thus cannot glissade, snowshoers sometimes run downhill in exaggerated steps, sliding slightly on the snow as they do, an option sometimes called "step sliding."

The Timp Glacier is one of the major sources of injury or death to hikers on Timp, particularly when some attempt to "glissade" (or slide rapidly) down the snowfield's surface with the assistance of a shovel or other device to save time descending.