sailplaning

1. 1.

   the activity of flying a glider

   Synonymsglideglidingsoaringsailing

   Broaderflight

   Narrowerhang glidingparasailing

Other forms of sailplaning

plural

sailplanings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sailplaning

What does sailplaning mean?

sailplaning means "the activity of flying a glider".

How many syllables are in sailplaning?

sailplaning has 3 syllables: sail-pla-ning. The stress falls on "sail".

What is another word for sailplaning?

Close synonyms include glide, gliding, soaring, sailing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sailplaning a common word?

sailplaning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.