Definition of "glissading" [glissading]

• Present participle of glissade. (verb)

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• "As you can see, an ice ax has three sharp “ends,” an adze (used for cutting steps in steep ice or snow) and a pick (used for arresting a fall and for securing holds on steep hard ice and snow), both mounted on the “head” of the ax, and the spike (used as a balance aid, for belaying a slip which has not yet become a slide, and for steering and braking during the deliberate form of sliding called glissading)."
• "Within minutes Sandra was ambulatory and we were glissading down the lava-rubble slope into the canyon."
• "Some times you do really stupid and painful things, like glissading (see video below) down the backside of the Gore Range."