glider

Definitions

• One who glides.
• Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
• A pilot of glider aircraft.
• Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the .
• A kind of garden swing.
• (mathematics) In the cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
• A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.