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# glider

«glider» in Mova's school dictionary: **a light aircraft with long wings and no engine that flies…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a glider, gliders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A glider is a light aircraft with long wings and no engine that flies by riding on air currents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glider/#m1)

2) A glider is also any thing or animal that glides, like a paper glider or a sugar glider (a small flying possum). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glider/#m2)

3) (UK) A glider is a garden swing seat that moves smoothly back and forth (also in the US, a glider chair). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glider/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and design and technology lessons, pupils make paper or balsa gliders to test wing shapes, weight and air resistance (forces: lift, drag, gravity). Gliders are pulled into the air by a plane or a winch, then slowly come down while rising on warm air (thermals). In nature, sugar gliders, flying squirrels and colugos glide between trees. Phrases: «paper glider», «hang glider», «sugar glider», «launch a glider».

### examples

- We made paper gliders and tested which flew furthest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glider/#x1)
- A glider has no engine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glider/#x2)
- The glider rose on warm air above the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glider/#x3)
- A sugar glider can glide from tree to tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glider/#x4)
- The hang glider jumped off the cliff and floated over the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glider/#x5)
- Adding a paperclip to the nose made my glider fly better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glider/#x6)

### note

Plural: «gliders». A glider still falls slowly overall; it rises only when the air under it rises. A «hang glider» is a different, simpler kind where the pilot hangs under a wing.

### In the corpora

- [Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glider» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glider/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.