Usually means: Aircraft moving without engine power.
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  1. gliders: Merriam-Webster
  2. gliders: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gliders: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gliders, gliders: Wordnik
  5. gliders: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gliders: Wiktionary
  7. gliders: Dictionary.com
  8. gliders: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Gliders: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Gliders: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Gliders: Encyclopedia

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  1. Gliders: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (glider)

noun:  One who glides.
noun:  Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
noun:  A pilot of glider aircraft.
noun:  Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
noun:  Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”)
noun:  A kind of garden swing.
noun:  (cellular automata) In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
noun:  (by extension) Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.
noun:  A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly that glide on out-held wings while flying, such as the common glider, Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.
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