Slide or Slides may refer to:

Places

* Slide, California, former name of Fortuna, California

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums

* ''Slide'' (Lisa Germano album), 1998 * ''Slide'' (George Clanton album), 2018 *''Slide'', by Patrick Gleeson, 2007 * ''Slide'' (Luna EP), 1993 * ''Slide'' (Madeline Merlo EP), 2022

Songs

* "Slide" (Slave song), 1977 * "Slide" (The Big Dish song), 1986 * "Slide" (Goo Goo Dolls song), 1998 * "Slide" (Calvin Harris song), 2017 * "Slide" (FBG Duck song), 2018 * "Slide" (French Montana song), 2019 * "Slide" (H.E.R. song), 2019 * "Slide" (Madeline Merlo song), 2022 * "Slide" (¥$ song), 2024 * "Step Back"/"Slide", by Superheist, 2001 *"Slide", by Chris Brown from '' Breezy'' *"Slide", by Dido from '' No Angel'' *"Slide", by Doechii from ''

Alligator Bites Never Heal ''Alligator Bites Never Heal'' is the second mixtape by the American rapper Doechii, released on August 30, 2024, through Top Dawg Entertainment and Capitol Records. It was supported by the singles " Nissan Altima", "Boom Bap", and " Denial Is ...

'' *"The Slide", by Cowboy Junkies from '' One Soul Now''

Other uses in music

* Slide (musical ornament), a musical embellishment found particularly in Baroque music * Slide (tune type), a tune type in Irish traditional music, common to the Sliabh Luachra area *Slide, a 1970s disco side project of

Rod McKuen Rodney Marvin McKuen ( ; ; April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide ...

's *''The Slide'', a jukebox musical using songs by

The Beautiful South The Beautiful South were an English pop rock group formed in 1988 by Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway, two former members of the Kingston upon Hull, Hull group the Housemartins, both of whom performed lead and backing vocals. Other members stayin ...

* Bent note, or slide, articulation *

Glissando In music, a glissando (; plural: ''glissandi'', abbreviated ''gliss.'') is a wikt:glide, glide from one pitch (music), pitch to another (). It is an Italianized Musical terminology, musical term derived from the French ''glisser'', "to glide". In ...

, or slide, articulation *

Legato In music performance and notation, legato (; Italian for "tied together"; French ''lié''; German ''gebunden'') indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly, such that the transition from note to note is made with no intervening si ...

, or slide, articulation

Musical instruments

Slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that ...

, a guitar playing technique *

Slide (wind instrument) A slide is a part of a wind instrument consisting of two (or more) pieces of tubing fitted one closely inside the other, and used to vary the overall length of the tube, and therefore the pitch of the instrument. Often two sets of tubes are use ...

, part of an instrument used to vary the length of a tube ** Slide whistle, a musical instrument using a slide **

Trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

, a musical instrument using a slide ***

Sackbut A sackbut is an early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance music, Renaissance and Baroque music, Baroque eras. A sackbut has the characteristic telescopic slide of a trombone, used to vary the length of the tube to change Pitch (m ...

, the Renaissance and early Baroque forerunner of the trombone

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Slide (dance), a dance move giving the impression of gliding around effortlessly * ''Slide'' (TV series), an Australian television drama * Slide (''Bluey''), a television episode * "The Slide" (''The Amazing World of Gumball''), a television episode *'' The Slide'', a 1966 British science fiction radio serial

Fashion

* Slide (footwear), a kind of shoe *Slide, also known as a neckerchief slide or woggle, is a ring to hold a neckerchief on a Scout's neck *

Hair clip A barrette (American English), also known as a hair slide (British English), or a hair clip, is a clasp for holding hair in place. They are often made from metal or plastic Plastics are a wide range of synthetic polymers, synthetic or Se ...

, also known as a hair slide

Recreation and sports

Slide (baseball) In baseball, a slide is the action of a player, acting as a baserunner, who drops his body to the ground once he is very close to the Baseball field#Specifications, base he is approaching and slides along the ground to reach the base. Sliding is ...

, dropping to the ground when going into a base to avoid being tagged * Slide (skateboarding), skateboarding tricks *

Playground slide Playground slides are found in parks, schools, playgrounds and backyards. The slide is an example of the simple machine known as the inclined plane, which makes moving objects up and down easier, or in this case more fun. The slide may be flat, o ...

, a smooth, sloped downward surface on which children slide while sitting * Sliding tackle, a skill in soccer *

Water slide A water slide (also referred to as a flume, water chute, or hydroslide) is a type of Playground slide, slide designed for warm-weather or indoor recreational use at swimming pools or water parks. Water slides differ in their riding method and ...

, a form of amusement in which people slide down a wet surface into a swimming pool * Losing slide, an uninterrupted string of contests lost

Technology

Slide (form) The form factor of a mobile phone is its size, shape, and style, as well as the layout and position of its major components. With one non-movable section Bar A bar (also known as a slab, block, candybar) phone takes the shape of a cuboid, usu ...

, a slide-out mobile phone form factor *

Slide (hoverboard) The Slide (stylized SLIDE) is a magnetically levitating hoverboard demonstration developed by Lexus, who built a skate park in Barcelona, Spain specifically for the project. The system was built as a promotional demonstration and was not on sa ...

, a hoverboard developed by Lexus * Tri-glide slide, an item that allows straps to be pulled through it to adjust their length *

Evacuation slide An evacuation slide is an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft quickly. An escape slide is required on all commercial (passenger carrying) aircraft where the door sill height is such that, in the event of an evacuation, passengers would ...

, an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft *

Google Slides Google Slides is a presentation program and part of the free, web-based Google Docs suite offered by Google. Google Slides is available as a web application, mobile app for: Android, iOS, and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS. ...

, a web-based presentation program offered by Google * Jakarta Slide, defunct content management system software *

Linear-motion bearing A linear-motion bearing or linear slide is a bearing designed to provide free motion in one direction. There are many different types of linear motion bearings. Motorized linear slides such as machine slides, X-Y tables, roller tables and som ...

, a bearing designed to provide free motion in one dimension *

Microscope slide A microscope slide is a thin flat piece of glass, typically 75 by 26 mm (3 by 1 inches) and about 1 mm thick, used to hold objects for examination under a microscope. Typically the object is mounted (secured) on the slide, and then ...

, a thin glass sheet used to hold objects for examination *

Photographic slide In photography, reversal film or slide film is a type of photographic film that produces a Positive (photography), positive image on a Transparency (optics), transparent base. Instead of negative (photography), negatives and photographic printin ...

or transparency, a positive photograph used for projection * Pistol slide, the upper half of a semi-automatic pistol, containing the barrel, sights, and ejection port *Slide edit, a

video editing Video editing is the post-production and arrangement of video shots. To showcase excellent video editing to the public, video editors must be reasonable and ensure they have a thorough understanding of film, television, and other sorts of videog ...

term for moving a video clip around in a timeline *

Slide rule A slide rule is a hand-operated mechanical calculator consisting of slidable rulers for conducting mathematical operations such as multiplication, division, exponents, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry. It is one of the simplest analog ...

, a simple analog calculator

Other uses

Slide (motion) Sliding is a type of motion between two surfaces in contact. This can be contrasted to ''rolling'' motion. Both types of motion may occur in bearings. The relative motion or tendency toward such motion between two surfaces is resisted by fricti ...

Landslide Landslides, also known as landslips, rockslips or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows. Landslides ...

, the movement of soil, mud or rock down a slope **

Slide (geography) The term slide as used in physical geography refers to the fixed or settled residue of a landslide that has stabilized, sometimes in the form of an alluvial fan. It has become a mostly permanent fixture to the landscape. Sedimentology Geomo ...

, fixed or settled residue of a landslide that has stabilized *

Presentation slide A slide is a single page of a presentation. A group of slides is called a slide deck. A slide show is an exposition of a series of slides or images in an electronic device or on a projection screen. Before personal computers, they were Reversal fil ...

, a document format used for presentations