Slide or Slides may refer to:

Places

Slide, California Fortuna (Spanish for "Fortune"; Wiyot: ''Vutsuwitk Da'l'') is a city on the northeast shore of the Eel River, approximately from where it enters the Pacific Ocean, and is on U.S. Route 101 in west-central Humboldt County, California, United St ...

, 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" (The Big Dish song), 1986 * "Slide" (Goo Goo Dolls song), 1998 * "Slide" (Calvin Harris song), 2017 * "Slide" (French Montana song), 2019 * "Slide" (H.E.R. song), 2019 * "Slide" (Slave song), 1977 * "Step Back"/"Slide", by Superheist, 2001 *"Slide", by Dido from '' No Angel'' *"Slide", by Madeline Merlo from '' Slide'', 2022 *"The Slide", by Cowboy Junkies from '' One Soul Now''

Other uses in music

Slide (musical ornament) The slide (Schleifer in German, Coulé in French, Superjectio in Latin)Donington, p. 217. is a musical ornament often found in baroque musical works, but used during many different periods. It instructs the performer to begin two or three scale ...

, 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 actor. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range ...

's *''The Slide'', a jukebox musical using songs by The Beautiful South * Bent note, or slide, articulation *

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

, or slide, articulation * Legato, 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 tha ...

, 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 used, ...

, part of an instrument used to vary the length of a tube **

Slide whistle A slide whistle (variously known as a swanee or swannee whistle, lotos flute piston flute, or jazz flute) is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it. Thus it has an air reed like some woodwinds ...

, a musical instrument using a slide ** Trombone, a musical instrument using a slide *** Sackbut, the Renaissance and early Baroque forerunner of the trombone

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Slide (dance) The jig ( ga, port, gd, port-cruinn) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accompanying dance tune. It is most associated with Irish music and dance. It first gained popularity in 16th-century Ireland and parts o ...

, a dance move giving the impression of gliding around effortlessly * ''Slide'' (TV series), an Australian television drama *'' 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 * Barrette, also known as a hair slide in North America

Recreation and sports

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

Slide (skateboarding) A slide is a skateboarding trick where the skateboarder slides sideways either on the deck or the trucks. Terms of direction ;Frontside :A slide with the skateboarder's frontside facing the obstacle he or she is sliding on, or the skateboard ...

, skateboarding tricks * Playground slide, a smooth, sloped downward surface on which children slide while sitting * Sliding tackle, a skill in soccer * Water slide, 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), a slide-out mobile phone form factor * Slide (hoverboard), a hoverboard developed by Lexus *

Tri-glide slide {{refimprove, date=May 2019 A tri-glide slide, also called a webbing slide, is a small item of hardware made of plastic or metal (usually electroplated) forming a rectangle with a bar in the middle—there are thus two separate openings. They are u ...

, an item that allows straps to be pulled through it to adjust their length * Evacuation slide, an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft * Google Slides, a web-based presentation program offered by Google *

Jakarta Slide Jakarta Slide is an open-source content management system from the Jakarta project. It is written in Java and implements the WebDAV protocol. Slide is a set of APIs to implement the WebDAV client. Thanks to that, Slide can also be seen as a Conten ...

, defunct content management system software * Linear-motion bearing, a bearing designed to provide free motion in one dimension * Microscope slide, a thin glass sheet used to hold objects for examination * Photographic slide 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 term for moving a video clip around in a timeline * Slide rule, a simple analog calculator

Other uses

* Slide (motion) *

Landslide Landslides, also known as landslips, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated grade (slope), slope failures, mudflows, and debris flows. Landslides occur in a variety of ...

, 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 An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentr ...

, fixed or settled residue of a landslide that has stabilized * Presentation slide, a document format used for presentations