A " corkscrewing " boat will upset more people than one that is gliding smoothly across the oncoming waves.

Other local recreational activities include fishing, hunting, kayaking, small boat sailing, and gliding.

The etymology of the word is given as Portuguese lancha " barge ", from Malay lancha, lancharan, " boat ," from lanchar " velocity without effort ," " action of gliding smoothly " ( said primarily of boats and turtles ).

The boat will lose the feeling that it is gliding or “ running out .”

The animal launches itself from a tree, spreads its limbs to expose the gliding membranes and directs its glide through subtle changes in the curvature of the membranes, acting as an aerofoil.

The wind resistance caused by the craft moving through the air is called drag and is overcome by propulsive thrust except in the case of gliding.

The swimmer breathes out through mouth and nose during the recovery and gliding phase.

The first, hang gliding, usually requires the player to fly through a series of floating marker rings or snap a photograph of a particular piece of scenery before landing in a target area.

Chloroflexi are typically filamentous, and can move about through bacterial gliding.

* Hang gliding & Paragliding through the FAI Hang Gliding & Paragliding Commission (" Commission Internationale de Vol Libre-CIVL )

The Liris is noticed by several of the Roman poets, as a very gentle and tranquil stream, a character which it well deserves in the lower part of its course, where it was described by a nineteenth century traveller as a wide and noble river, winding under the shadow of poplars through a lovely vale, and then gliding gently towards the sea.

Over the years, Imagineering has conceived a whole range of retail stores, galleries, and hotels that are designed to be experienced and to create and sustain a very specific mood – for example, the mood of Disney's Contemporary Resort could be called “ futuristic optimism ,” and it ’ s readily apparent given the resort ’ s A-frame structure, futuristic building techniques, modern décor, and the monorail gliding quietly through the lobby every few minutes.

Many are able to move about through gliding, but members of the genus Spiroplasma are helical and move by twisting.

* Seawing ( Kraken in Japan ) is the team's stealth specialist, gliding silently through the water and attacking without warning.

Regulation of gliding is through the British Gliding Association and its affiliated clubs.

SR 18 becomes an at-grade roadway again, and climbs towards Tiger Summit, a pass through the Issaquah Alps which, at elevation, is the highest point along the road, with a parking area to the north of the highway that allows access to a trail head that leads to a hang gliding point.

The Ghost Hunt investigation team visited the theatre and were shown a picture that is claimed to show the ghost of a young woman gliding through a wall of the foyer, below a Gothic window.

To her dismay she continues to fail at this and she takes an extremely close look when she finds herself gliding through the air in an unknown world.

When the other fairies see her dancing and gliding through the branches they know it's almost Springtime!

Flying snakes are able to glide better than flying squirrels and other gliding animals, despite the lack of limbs, wings, or any other wing-like projections, gliding through the forest and jungle it inhabits with the distance being as great as 100 m. Their destination is mostly predicted by ballistics ; however, they can exercise some in-flight attitude control by " slithering " in the air.

Although it is able to move horizontally through the air when gliding, it does not glide as well as C. paradisi.

Work began in April 1996 with the opening titles — a gliding journey through a canyon of green, cartographic lines with scenes illuminated upon the walls.

Hang gliding teaching is primarily through tandem aerotow flights with take off and landing both on wheels.

The gregarines are able to move and change direction along a surface through gliding motility without the use of cilia, flagella, or lamellipodia.

Gliding in the United Kingdom operates through 85 gliding clubs ( both civilian and service ) which have 2, 310 gliders and 9, 462 full flying members ( including service personnel ), though a further 17, 000 people have gliding air-experience flights each year.

When the term first surfaced circa the late 1980s / early 1990s, it was used for adult sports such as skydiving, scuba diving, surfing, rock climbing, snow skiing, water skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, mountaineering, storm chasing, hang gliding, and bungee jumping, many of which were then growing in popularity.

Marina State Beach is a windswept beach area between State Route 1 and Monterey Bay where water recreation, hang gliding and paragliding are popular.

Most procellariids aid their flight by means of flap-glides, where bursts of flapping are followed by a period of gliding ; the amount of flapping dependent on the strength of the wind and the choppiness of the water.

After the start a gliding phase follows under water, followed by dolphin kicks swim under water.

After the start a gliding phase follows under water, followed by one underwater pulldown and dolphin kick, then one whip kick as the hands are recovered back to a streamline.

* Slow butterfly ( also known as moth stroke ): Similar to butterfly, but with an extended gliding phase, Breathing during the pull / push phase, return head into water during recovery.

Wilson's Storm Petrel has a more direct gliding flight than other small petrels, and like most others it flies low over the seas surface and has the habit of pattering on the water surface as it picks planktonic food items from the ocean surface.

It has a direct gliding flight and will patter on the water surface as it picks planktonic food items from the ocean surface.

Also ' Ray Reef ' opened featuring over 100 rays ' flying and gliding ' under the water.

The gliding property of a ski is an attempt to optimize the thickness of the thin film of water between the ski and the snow.

Paul also noted that Confuciusornis is commonly found as large assemblages in lake bottom sediments with little to no evidence of extensive postmortem transport, and that it would be highly unusual for gliding animals to be found in such large numbers in deep water.

The visitor can enjoy many sea sports ( such as water skiing, sea gliding, diving, fishing, jet skiing, wind surfing ) while around it he can find hotel complexes, variety of units with rental rooms, picturesque taverns and mini markets.

The Squadron offers a wide range of exciting activities to young people aged 13-20 years including flying and gliding, the Duke of Edinburgh Award, BTECs in Aviation Studies, adventure training, target shooting, sports, drill and ceremonial, community activities, water sports and social activities ( to name but a few ).

Once achieved, the thrill of the moment gives the surfer the sensation that their feet are simply gliding on water and that they are defying gravity.

True finches have a bouncing flight like most small passerines, alternating bouts of flapping with gliding on closed wings.

In the sport's early days, pilots were restricted to gliding down small hills on low-performance hang gliders.

Skates now cut into the ice instead of gliding on top of it.

Many move about using flagella, but some are nonmotile or rely on bacterial gliding.

" Regarding Nurmi's track antics, Peltzer found that " in his impenetrability he was a Buddha gliding on the track.

; Wallyboarding: Powered surf gliding on a body or surf board.

Most use a combination of keen eyesight and hearing to hunt small vertebrates, gliding on their long broad wings and circling low over grasslands and marshes.

Located on the eastern wall of the valley and overlooking central Sequatchie County, the Tree Tooper's famous " radial ramp ", also known as Henson's Gap, is the site of numerous hang gliding competitions.

The Festival of the Winds, held on Mother's Day weekend every year, has giant kites, hang gliding, kite making workshops, and many more activities.

Some say that this ghost walks upon the original floor levels which have been altered since her day, such that her ghost appears as legs and lower body projecting from the ceiling on one floor with head and upper body gliding along the floor above.

Species such as the Wandering Albatross, which forage over huge areas of sea, have a reduced capacity for powered flight and are dependent on a type of gliding called dynamic soaring ( where the wind deflected by waves provides lift ) as well as slope soaring.

The winds on Traverse Ridge make it one of the world's best hang gliding or paragliding spots.

Most prey is captured on the ground in gliding attacks or ( less frequently ) in the air.

Black Kites are most often seen gliding and soaring on thermals as they search for food.

Swallows have adapted to hunting insects on the wing by developing a slender streamlined body and long pointed wings, which allow great maneuverability and endurance, as well as frequent periods of gliding.

According to the Seyahatname of Ottoman historian and traveller Evliya Çelebi, in circa 1630-1632, Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi flew as an early intercontinental aviator using artificial wings for gliding from this tower over the Bosphorus to the slopes of Üsküdar on the Anatolian side, nearly six kilometres away.

It is one of the most aerial of birds traveling huge distances in search of food, its large wings being adapted to gliding on thermals in a rather vulture-like way.

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Some burrowing species from the genera Astropecten and Luidia have points rather than suckers on their long tube feet and are capable of much more rapid motion, " gliding " across the ocean floor.

In 1939 Sir Dennistoun Burney and Nevil Shute worked together on an air-launched gliding torpedo, the " Toraplane ", and a gliding bomb, " Doravane ".

The downward motion is not very apparent and this creates the illusion that a skysurfer is gliding on air currents like a sailplane or hang glider.

It was intended to install the engine on the Heinkel He 280 fighter, but the airframe development progressed much more smoothly than the engine, and had to be used in gliding tests while work on the engine continued.