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sliding

verbnounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈslaɪdɪŋ//

The motion of something that slides.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of slidepresent participle and gerund of slide

    Children were swinging and sliding in the playground.

noun

  1. 1

    The motion of something that slides.

    Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]

  2. 2

    skeleton (winter sport)

adjective

  1. 1

    Designed or able to slide.

    Our yard is just outside the sliding door.

Forms

plural
slidings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).