slide along

slide along

1. To move forward while maintaining smooth, continual contact (over the length of something). I love ice skating. There is something so calming about spending an afternoon just sliding along on the ice. We slipped and slid along the icy path until we finally reached the parking lot.
2. To cause someone or something to move forward while maintaining continual contact (over the length of something). In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "slide" and "along." Please don't slide those crates along the floor like that—you'll scuff up the linoleum! With his ankle broken, all we could do was stretch him out on one of our jackets and slide him along until we got back to camp.
See also: slide
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

slide along

to slip or glide along. The sled slid along at a good clip down the gently sloping hill. We slid along on the icy roads and had a hard time stopping and turning.
See also: slide
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • slid
  • slide around
  • slide by
  • slide down from
  • slide down from (something)
  • on thin ice, to be/skate
  • silk
  • (as) smooth as silk
  • smooth as silk
  • smooth down
References in classic literature
It was wildly exhilarating to slide along the edge of the precipices, after this grisly fashion, and look straight down upon that far-off valley which I was describing a while ago.
With a strength which the sense of danger increased tenfold, he seized one of the beams--the longest and heaviest; he pushed it out through a loophole, then, grasping it again outside of the tower, he made it slide along the angle of the balustrade which surrounds the platform, and let it fly into the abyss.
Television footage showed the plane crash and slide along the tarmac at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, before its rear exploded into flames.
The cables snake through the back of udoq's aluminum bar, snapping onto the patented connectors, which slide along the track on the bottom and can be moved into any position for optimal viewing, operating, and charging.
The company says that in plastics processing applications, noise is greatly reduced because parts gently slide along the tray bottom.
At Oasis Centre, the Play Zone has been expanded and two new rides have also been introduced: Log Flume, an Arctic-themed kiddie flume ride that has six seal-shaped mobiles that slide along a 40-metre fibreglass; and an all-new Taga J, a rotating platform with an interactive inflatable that will make the riders spin, bounce, rock and jump.
If air velocities drop below the material's saltation velocity, (meaning the minimum velocity to transport the material within the airstream) the material will drop out of the air stream and just slide along a pipe or elbow.
The rail head or end terminal, which is often marked with yellow and black stripes, is supposed to slide along the guardrail itself, pushing it to the side.
I'm sure Mags fans would love to see the manager slide along the touchline getting his knees dirty come the weekend, and that will only be possible with an away win at 8/5.
Stephane Sessegnon fired the only goal of the game and Di Canio celebrated after the final whistle as if he had scored himself - although he resisted the temptation to slide along the touchline on his knees.
a bead of sweat began a downward slide along my spine to the tune of
The interaction between the keel and the Antilles subduction zone - a place where the South American Plate is nudging under the Caribbean Plate - causes material to slide along, instead of destroying or generating new formations, Becker explained in a phone interview.
Another video camera coupled with a dissecting microscope helped to determine that individual droplets of sticky glue slide along the leg's bristly hair, and to estimate the forces of adhesion to the web.
Slide along a row of flat spines, slip one out and touch