Glider may refer to:

Aircraft and transport

Aircraft

Glider (aircraft) A glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its lifting surfaces, and whose free flight does not depend on an engine. Most gliders do not have an engine, although motor-gliders have ...

, heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight **

Glider (sailplane) A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the leisure activity and sport of gliding (also called soaring). This unpowered aircraft can use naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to gain altitude. Sailpla ...

, 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 paper plane (also known as a paper airplane in American English or paper aeroplane in British English) is a toy aircraft, usually a glider made out of single folded sheet of paper or paperboard. A simple nose-heavy paper plane, thrown like ...

, a model or toy glider made out of paper * Gimli Glider, an Air Canada 767 which glided to a successful landing after running out of fuel in 1983

Other transport

* Glider (automobiles), a vehicle without a powertrain *

Glider (Belfast) Glider is a bus rapid transit system in Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed to improve the efficiency of mass transit in the city by connecting East and West Belfast and the Titanic Quarter via the city centre. The service is operated by Transl ...

, 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 The greater gliders are three species of large gliding marsupials in the genus ''Petauroides'', all of which are found in eastern Australia. Until 2020 they were considered to be one species, '' Petauroides volans''. In 2020 morphological and gen ...

, ''Petauroides volans'' **

Feathertail glider The feathertail glider (''Acrobates pygmaeus''), also known as the pygmy gliding possum, pygmy glider, pygmy phalanger, flying phalanger and flying mouse, is a species of marsupial native to eastern Australia. It is the world's smallest gliding ...

or pygmy gliding possum, ''Acrobates pygmaeus'' **

Biak glider The Biak glider (''Petaurus biacensis'') is a species of marsupial in the family Petauridae. It is endemic to the Schouten Islands in the western region of Papua Province, Indonesia. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of ''Petaurus br ...

, ''Petaurus biacensis'' ** Mahogany glider, ''Petaurus gracilis'' **

Northern glider The northern glider (''Petaurus abidi'') is a species of marsupial in the family Petauridae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea, becoming known to science in 1981 after being discovered in the Torricelli Mountains. This species has been found in ...

, ''Petaurus abidi'' ** Squirrel glider, ''Petaurus norfolcensis'' ** Sugar glider, ''Petaurus breviceps'' **

Yellow-bellied glider The yellow-bellied glider (''Petaurus australis''), also known as the fluffy glider, is an arboreal and nocturnal gliding possum that lives in native eucalypt forests in eastern Australia, from northern Queensland south to Victoria. Habitat ...

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 * ''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 glider or platform rocker is a type of rocking chair that moves as a swing seat, where the entire frame consists of a seat attached to the base by means of a double-rocker four-bar linkage. The non-parallel suspension arms of the linkage cause ...

, a type of swinging seat * Gliders (''Elfquest''), a fictional tribe of elves in the comic book series ''Elfquest'' *

Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team The Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team is the women's wheelchair basketball side that represents Australia in international competitions. The team is known as the Gliders. The team hasn't won a gold medal for Australia since i ...

, nicknamed the Gliders