Glider or Gliders 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 ha ...

, 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. Sailplan ...

, a rigid-winged glider aircraft with an undercarriage, used in the sport of gliding ** Motor glider, heavier-than-air aircraft intended for powered or unpowered flight

Other transport

Glider (automobiles) In the United States, with regard to automobiles, a glider is a vehicle without a powertrain (especially without an engine). Gliders are generally sold as unused car bodies, but a second-hand car may also be stripped of its powertrain and sold a ...

, a vehicle without a powertrain * Glider (Belfast), a bus rapid transit system in Belfast, Northern Ireland *

Underwater glider An underwater glider is a type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that employs variable-buoyancy propulsion instead of traditional propellers or Underwater thruster, thrusters. It employs variable buoyancy in a similar way to a profiling floa ...

, 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 Phalangeriformes is a paraphyletic suborder of about 70 species of small to medium-sized arboreal locomotion, arboreal marsupials native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi. The species are commonly known as possums, opossums, gliders, and ...

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 In Taxon ...

, ''Petaurus biacensis'' **

Mahogany glider The mahogany glider (''Petaurus gracilis'') is an endangered gliding possumNorthern glider, ''Petaurus abidi'' ** Squirrel glider, ''Petaurus norfolcensis'' **

Sugar glider The sugar glider (''Petaurus breviceps'') is a small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal gliding possum. The common name refers to its predilection for sugary foods such as sap and nectar and its ability to glide through the air, much lik ...

, ''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 Th ...

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 In chronology and periodization, an epoch or reference epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era. The "epoch" serves as a reference point from which time is measured. The moment of epoch is usually decided b ...

'', 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 India Gliders India Limited (GIL) is an Indian state-owned defence company, headquartered at Ordnance Parachute Factory in Kanpur, India established in 2021 as part of the restructuring and corporatisation of the Ordnance Factory Board into seven dif ...

, an Indian state-owned defence company *

Glider Ushñahua Glider Agustín Ushñahua Huasanga (26 September 1968 – 16 April 2020) was a Peruvian Fujimorist politician who served as a Congressman, representing the Department of Ucayali between 2016 and 2019. Early life and career He was born in Puc ...

(1968–2020), Peruvian politician * 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