Glider

Glider or Gliders may refer to:

Aircraft and transport

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

Other transport

• Glider (automobiles), a vehicle without a powertrain
• Glider (Belfast), a bus rapid transit system in Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Underwater glider, a submarine propelled by changing buoyancy

Animals

• There are at least eight marsupial mammals with the name "glider". They are in two families within the 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

Computing and video games

• Glider (bot), an Internet bot for automating World of Warcraft gameplay
• Glider (Conway's Life), a pattern in Conway's Game of Life, also used as a hacker emblem
• Glider (video game), a 1988 Apple Macintosh game by John Calhoun

Music

• Glider (band), a band featuring members of Counting Crows
• Maple Glider, stage name of Australian pop singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch (fl. 2017–present)
• Glider (The Sight Below album), 2008
• Glider (Tokio album) or the title song, 2003
• Glider (EP) or the title song, by My Bloody Valentine, 1990
• "Glider" (Boyfriend song), 2016
• "Glider", a song by Tycho from Epoch, 2016

Other uses

• Glider (furniture), a type of swinging seat
• Gliders India, an Indian state-owned defence company
• Glider Ushñahua (1968–2020), Peruvian politician
• Gliders (Elfquest), a fictional tribe of elves in the comic book series Elfquest
• Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, nicknamed the Gliders

See also

• Gimli Glider, an Air Canada 767 which glided to a successful landing after running out of fuel in 1983
• Glide (disambiguation)
• Gliding (disambiguation)
• Flying and gliding animals

1. Sugar glider
2. Glider (aircraft)
3. Military glider
4. Gimli Glider
5. Hang gliding
6. Glider infantry
7. Glider (automobiles)
8. Glider (sailplane)
9. Wright Glider
10. Airspeed Horsa
11. Glider Badge
12. Feathertail glider
13. Waco CG-4
14. Glider (furniture)
15. Gliding
16. Glider pilot license
17. Glider Pilot Regiment
18. Krefft's glider
19. Greater glider
20. American airborne landings in Normandy