• Gliding
  Gliding
  Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.Gliding as a sport began in the 1920s...
  
  , in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes
• Lift (soaring)
  Lift (soaring)
  Gliding flight is heavier-than-air flight without the use of thrust. It is employed by gliding animals and by aircraft such as gliders. The most common human application of gliding flight is in sport and recreation using aircraft designed for this purpose...
  
  , a meteorological phenomenon used as an energy source by some aircraft and birds
• An increased speed of growth in a mountains height
• Soaring (magazine)
  Soaring (magazine)
  SOARING is a magazine published monthly as a membership benefit of the Soaring Society of America. The magazine's article topics include safety issues and accounts of individual gliding accomplishments....
  
  , a magazine produced by the Soaring Society of America
• List of soaring birds

See also

• Bird flight
  Bird flight
  Flight is the main mode of locomotion used by most of the world's bird species. Flight assists birds while feeding, breeding and avoiding predators....
  
  
• Flying and gliding animals
  Flying and gliding animals
  A number of animals have evolved aerial locomotion, either by powered flight or by gliding. Flying and gliding animals have evolved separately many times, without any single ancestor. Flight has evolved at least four times, in the insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats. Gliding has evolved on many...
  
  
• Dynamic soaring
  Dynamic soaring
  Dynamic soaring is a flying technique used to gain energy by repeatedly crossing the boundary between air masses of significantly different velocity...
  
  
• Ridge soaring
• Controllable slope soaring
  Controllable slope soaring
  Controllable-slope soaring is a type of slope soaring where a slope is made to follow the airplane in gliding flight, both sustaining and controlling the airplane's trajectory by modifying the wind in the vicinity of the airplane. A controllable slope is any object which can be used to affect the...
  
  
• Orographic lift
  Orographic lift
  Orographic lift occurs when an air mass is forced from a low elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over rising terrain. As the air mass gains altitude it quickly cools down adiabatically, which can raise the relative humidity to 100% and create clouds and, under the right conditions,...
  
  
• Thermal
  Thermal
  A thermal column is a column of rising air in the lower altitudes of the Earth's atmosphere. Thermals are created by the uneven heating of the Earth's surface from solar radiation, and are an example of convection. The sun warms the ground, which in turn warms the air directly above it...
  
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• Lee waves
  Lee waves
  In meteorology, lee waves are atmospheric standing waves. The most common form is mountain waves, which are atmospheric internal gravity waves...