glissading

As you can see, an ice ax has three sharp “ends,” an adze (used for cutting steps in steep ice or snow) and a pick (used for arresting a fall and for securing holds on steep hard ice and snow), both mounted on the “head” of the ax, and the spike (used as a balance aid, for belaying a slip which has not yet become a slide, and for steering and braking during the deliberate form of sliding called glissading).

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Within minutes Sandra was ambulatory and we were glissading down the lava-rubble slope into the canyon.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2010

Within minutes Sandra was ambulatory and we were glissading down the lava-rubble slope into the canyon.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2010

Within minutes Sandra was ambulatory and we were glissading down the lava-rubble slope into the canyon.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2010

Within minutes Sandra was ambulatory and we were glissading down the lava-rubble slope into the canyon.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2010

Some times you do really stupid and painful things, like glissading (see video below) down the backside of the Gore Range.

The Things We Do For Fishing... Tim Romano 2007

Teemu was glissading down the slope, using his shield as a snow saucer.

The Viking Claw Michael Dahl 2001

The sun was streaming in the window, long glissading columns of incandescent light.

Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998

Then Fermour bunched his stocky form and dived out into the dark for Wantage, who was blaspheming quietly near the floor; glissading off the wall, Fermour seized him, braked himself with an out-thrust heel, and floated softly back on the rebound.

Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959

The quick scrape of a chair in the living room and the sound of hasty footsteps glissading on the throw-rug in the hall heralded the approach of Timmy's father.

The Short Life Francis Donovan

We could navigate this by glissading—a kind of sliding, as though we were on snowshoes.

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