Glider

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Glider may refer to:

Aircraft

• Glider (aircraft), heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight
  • Glider (sailplane), a rigid-winged glider aircraft with an undercarriage, used in the sport of gliding
  • Military glider, used to transport combat troops and equipment to a combat zone
  • Motor glider, a glider with a power source to generate thrust
  • Hang glider, foot-launched, framed fabric wing, usually used for recreation
  • Paraglider, foot-launched, unframed fabric wing, usually used for recreation
  • Rocket glider, a rocket propelled aircraft that routinely lands as a glider
  • Walkalong glider, a model glider with updraft generated by a person walking behind
  • Paper glider, a model or toy glider made out of paper

Animals

• Glider, a marsupial mammal in suborder Phalangeriformes
  • Greater glider, Petauroides volans
  • Feathertail glider or pygmy gliding possum, Acrobates pygmaeus
  • Biak glider, Petaurus biacensis
  • Mahogany glider, Petaurus gracilis
  • Northern glider, Petaurus abidi
  • Squirrel glider, Petaurus norfolcensis
  • Sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps
  • Yellow-bellied glider or fluffy glider, Petaurus australis

Culture

• Glider (band), band featuring members of Counting Crows
• Glider (EP), by My Bloody Valentine
• Glider (The Sight Below album)
• Glider (Tokio album), an album by Japanese band Tokio
• Gliders (Elfquest), fictional tribe of elves in the comic book series Elfquest
• Glider, Hacker Emblem, a uniting and recognizable symbol of hacker culture, a representation of a glider formation in Conway's Game of Life
• Gliders, nickname for the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team

Software

• Glider (bot), Internet bot for automating World of Warcraft gameplay
• Glider (Conway's Life), a type of cellular automaton "spaceship" in Conway's Game of Life
• Glider PRO, game for the Apple Macintosh, by John Calhoun

Other uses

• Glider (automobiles), a vehicle without a powertrain
• Glider (furniture), a comfortable swinging seat that has a motion similar to a rocking chair
• Glider (video game), a Macintosh game released in 1988
• Underwater glider, a submarine propelled by changing buoyancy

See also

• Glide (disambiguation)
• Gliding (disambiguation)
• Flying and gliding animals