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