Glider
Glider or Gliders may refer to:
Aircraft and transport
Aircraft
- Glider (aircraft), heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight
- Glider (sailplane), a rigid-winged glider aircraft with an undercarriage, used in the sport of gliding
Other transport
- Glider (automobiles), a vehicle without a powertrain
- Glider (Belfast), 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, Petauroides volans
- Feathertail glider or pygmy gliding possum, Acrobates pygmaeus
- Biak glider, Petaurus biacensis
- Mahogany glider, Petaurus gracilis
- Northern glider, Petaurus abidi
- Squirrel glider, Petaurus norfolcensis
- Sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps
- Yellow-bellied glider 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
- Maple Glider, stage name of Australian pop singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch (fl. 2017–present)
- 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 type of swinging seat
- Gliders India, an Indian state-owned defence company
- Glider Ushñahua (1968–2020), Peruvian politician
- Gliders (Elfquest), a fictional tribe of elves in the comic book series Elfquest
- Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, nicknamed the Gliders
See also
- Gimli Glider, an Air Canada 767 which glided to a successful landing after running out of fuel in 1983
- Glide (disambiguation)
- Gliding (disambiguation)
- Flying and gliding animals