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Slide or Slides may refer to:

Places

  • Slide, California, former name of Fortuna, California

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums

  • Slide (Lisa Germano album), 1998
  • Slide (George Clanton album), 2018
  • Slide (EP), by Luna, 1993
  • Slide, by Patrick Gleeson, 2007

Songs

  • "Slide" (Goo Goo Dolls song), 1998
  • "Slide" (Calvin Harris song), 2017
  • "Slide" (French Montana song), 2019
  • "Slide" (H.E.R. song), 2019
  • "Slide" (Slave song), 1977
  • "Step Back"/"Slide", by Superheist, 2001
  • "Slide", by Dido from No Angel
  • "The Slide", by Cowboy Junkies from One Soul Now

Other uses in music

  • Slide (musical ornament), a musical embellishment found particularly in Baroque music
  • Slide (tune type), a tune type in Irish traditional music, common to the Sliabh Luachra area
  • Slide, a 1970s disco side project of Rod McKuen's
  • The Slide, a jukebox musical using songs by The Beautiful South
  • Bent note, or slide, articulation
  • Glissando, or slide, articulation
  • Legato, or slide, articulation

Musical instruments

  • Slide guitar, a guitar playing technique
  • Slide (wind instrument), part of an instrument used to vary the length of a tube, and therefore the pitch of the instrument
    • Slide whistle, a musical instrument using a slide
    • Trombone, a musical instrument using a slide
      • Sackbut, the Renaissance and early Baroque forerunner of the trombone

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Slide (dance), a dance move giving the impression of gliding around effortlessly
  • Slide (TV series), an Australian television drama
  • The Slide, a 1966 British science fiction radio serial

Fashion

  • Slide (footwear), a kind of shoe
  • Slide, also known as a neckerchief slide or woggle, is a ring to hold a neckerchief on a Scout's neck
  • Barrette, also known as a hair slide in North America

Recreation and sports

  • Slide (baseball), dropping to the ground when going into a base to avoid being tagged
  • Slide (skateboarding), skateboarding tricks
  • Playground slide, a smooth, sloped downward surface on which children slide while sitting
  • Sliding tackle, a skill in soccer
  • Water slide, a form of amusement in which people slide down a wet surface into a swimming pool

Technology

  • Slide (form), a slide-out mobile phone form factor
  • Slide (hoverboard), a hoverboard developed by Lexus
  • Tri-glide slide, an item that allows straps to be pulled through it to adjust their length
  • Evacuation slide, an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft
  • Google Slides, a web-based presentation program offered by Google
  • Jakarta Slide, defunct content management system software
  • Linear-motion bearing, a bearing designed to provide free motion in one dimension
  • Microscope slide, a thin glass sheet used to hold objects for examination
  • Photographic slide or transparency, a positive photograph used for projection
  • Pistol slide, the upper half of a semi-automatic pistol, containing the barrel, sights, and ejection port
  • Slide edit, a video editing term for moving a video clip around in a timeline
  • Slide rule, a simple analog calculator
  • Slide.com, a software application developer

Other uses

  • Slide (motion)
  • Landslide, the movement of soil, mud or rock down a slope
    • Slide (geography), fixed or settled residue of a landslide that has stabilized
  • Presentation slide, a document format used for presentations

See also

  • Slide Lake (disambiguation)
  • Slider (disambiguation)
  • Sliding (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Slide
  • All pages with titles containing Slide
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