Clues for the word "SLIDE"
We've had 147 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 265 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 27, 2026.
Definition of slide
- v. t. - To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
- v. t. - Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.
- v. t. - To pass inadvertently.
- v. t. - To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
- v. t. - To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
- v. t. - To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
- v. t. - To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
- v. t. - To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
- v. t. - To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
- n. - The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
- n. - Smooth, even passage or progress.
- n. - That on which anything moves by sliding.
- n. - An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- n. - A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
- n. - That which operates by sliding.
- n. - A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
- n. - A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
- n. - A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
- n. - A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
- n. - The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
- n. - A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- n. - A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- n. - An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
- n. - A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- n. - Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
- n. - A slide valve.
Referring Clues
- Get home safely?
- Stock market woe
- Playground fixture
- Water park sight
- Playground feature
- Try to avoid a tag
- Base coach's cry
- Playground sight
- It's shown on a projector
- Item with a ladder
- Decline
- Trombone feature
- Where you might find a 7-Down
- Base coach's urging
- Stock market sell-off
- Way to get home
- Descend a firehouse pole
- ___ rule (calculation tool employing logs)
- Come in feet first, e.g.
- Water park feature
- Move smoothly
- Type of guitar
- Water park chute
- It may be next to a swing
- One way to get home
- Playground favorite
- Trombone piece
- Get home safely, perhaps
- Fall gradually
- Shout from a third base coach
- Try to get home safely, perhaps
- Clear part of a presentation?
- Trombone part
- Elude a tag
- Lose traction
- Elude a tag, in a way
- One way to reach a base
- Playground equipment
- Kind of trombone
- One way to come home?
- Base coach's frantic cry
- Swing accompanier
- Arrive home, in a way
- Bad news on Wall Street
- Base coachs urging
- Snow problem
- Try to avoid the tag
- Base stealer's tactic
- Playground fave
- Hit an ice patch
- Base-stealer's maneuver
- Downswing
- Playground item
- Playground chute
- Ride a sled downhill
- Perform a glissade
- Playground staple
- Base runner's option
- Glide
- Third base coach's urging, maybe
- Get under the tag, hopefully
- Avalanche
- Decline in value
- One way to get home?
- PowerPoint unit
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- Wall Street decline, or something that might be associated with 18-, 26-, 44- or 57-Across
- It has a ladder on a playground
- Playground piece
- Coast
- Microscope item
- Baggage carousel feeder
- Go with the flow
- Pool adjunct
- Microscope adjunct
- Use the firehouse pole
- Water park attraction
- Water park fixture
- Go down toward home?
- Skid
- Drop a bit
- Essential trombone part
- Go into a skid
- Decline gradually
- Part of a water park
- Swimming pool adjunct
- Recess ramp
- One way to come home
- Piece of playground equipment
- Bit of playground equipment
- Transparency of a bit of playground equipment
- Trombone part, mostly
- Slip
- Duane Allman's instrument
- "Dizzy Up the Girl" single
- What Derek Trucks plays
- Bottleneck
- Goo Goo Dolls "I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete" song
- Elude the tag
- Goo Goo Dolls smash
- Goo Goo Dolls smash for the playground?
- Bonnie Raitt uses one on her guitar
- It's inclined to be used in child's play
- A slip made by the novice in the team
- For the young, it may offer an enjoyable come-down
- Hair clip
- Microscope accessory
- Clasp part of trombone
- One way to arrive at home
- Decline to provide cover, if perimeter is lost
- Team going round second of cliffs, slip
- Idles around going into decline
- Glass plate that's put into a microscope
- Slip it into the projector
- Microscope insert
- Microscope rectangle
- Arrive at a base, maybe
- ___ rule (old-timey math tool)
- Avoid a tag, in a way
- ___ trombone
- Arrive at a base horizontally
- A slip that can mean a come-down
- Pool chute
- The Frank ___
- Go downhill fast
- Backyard pool accessory
- Piece of glass examined in a lab
- End of many an inflatable obstacle course
- Chute
- Command to a base runner racing a throw
- Projected piece of playground equipment
- What goes down on a playground?
- Hit the dirt on a diamond
- Electric ___ (dance)
- Playground fixture with a ladder
- Word with rule or tackle
- Picture of a hair accessory
- Word with rule or show
- Part of a PowerPoint
- Hit the dirt at third
- What a coach's hands-down gesture may mean
- Word with water or Electric
- Slip and ___
- Go downhill
- Word after Cha-Cha and Electric, in dance songs
- "I'll let that ___ ..."
- Waterpark feature
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 27, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 29, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 01, 2025
- Daily American - September 22, 2025
- LA Times - September 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 10, 2025
- Daily American - May 12, 2025
- New York Times - May 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 06, 2025
- LA Times - February 04, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 30, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 10, 2024
- LA Times - April 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 06, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 29, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 15, 2024
- USA Today - December 02, 2023
- LA Times - November 03, 2023
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