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Flying vs Gliding - What's the difference?

flying | gliding |

As verbs the difference between flying and gliding

is that flying is present participle of lang=en while gliding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between flying and gliding

is that flying is an act of flight while gliding is the action or motion of something that glides.

As an adjective flying

is that can fly.

flying

English

Adjective

(-)
  • That can fly.
    • (flying fox)
  • Brief or hurried.
    • (flying visit)
  • (nautical, of a sail) Not secured by yards.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * flyingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of flight.
  • * 1993 , John C. Greene, ?Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 (page 58)
    • "Flyings'" could vary considerably in complexity and lavishness and could involve an actor or property being either lifted from the stage into the flies above or vice versa. As Colin Visser has observed, ' flyings and sinkings are both "associated with supernatural manifestations of various kinds"

    gliding

    English

    (wikipedia gliding)

    Noun

  • The action or motion of something that glides.
  • The hobby, sport or act of flying a glider.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * gliding plane

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