gliders Definition

one that glides: such as

an aircraft similar to an airplane but without an engine

a porch seat suspended from an upright framework

a kitelike glider from which a harnessed rider hangs while gliding down from a cliff or hill

a small, primarily nocturnal, arboreal, marsupial possum (Petaurus breviceps of the family Petauridae) of Australia, New Guinea, and the Moluccas that has soft, silvery gray to brown fur and a bushy often white-tipped tail, that typically feeds on sap, nectar, and insects, and that is sometimes kept as a pet