Slide

Slide may refer to:

Technology

• Photographic slide or transparency, a positive photograph used for projection
• Microscope slide, a thin glass sheet used to hold objects for examination
• Slide (form), a slide-out mobile phone form factor
• Evacuation slide, an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft
• Slide rule, a simple analog calculator
• Jakarta Slide, defunct Content Management System software
• 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
• Linear-motion bearing, a bearing designed to provide free motion in one dimension
• Slide.com, a software application developer

Music

• Glissando, articulation
• Legato, articulation
• Slide (musical ornament), a musical embellishment found particularly in Baroque music
• Bent note, articulation
• Slide (album), an album by Lisa Germano
• "Slide" (song), a single by the Goo Goo Dolls
• "Slide" (album), an album by Patrick Gleeson
• "Slide" (Slave song), a song by R&B/funk band Slave
• "Step Back/Slide", a single by the band Superheist
• "Slide", a song by Dido on the album No Angel
• Slide (tune type), a tune type in Irish Traditional Music, common to the Sliabh Luachra area

Musical instruments

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

Sports and recreation

• Slide (baseball), dropping to the ground when going into a base to avoid a tag
• Slide (dance), a dance move giving the impression of gliding around effortlessly
• Playground slide, a smooth, sloped surface down which children slide while sitting down
• Water slide, a form of amusement in which people slide down a wet tube into a swimming pool
• Sliding tackle, a skill in soccer
• Darkslide, a skateboarding trick

Television

• Slide (TV series), an Australian television drama on Fox8

Other uses

• Landslide, the movement of soil, mud or rock down a slope
  • Slide (geography), fixed or settled residue of a landslide that has stabilized
• Slide (footwear), a kind of shoe
• Slide, California, former name of Fortuna, California
• Presentation slide, a document format used for presentations
• Slide, a fictional creature in the Sword of Truth book series
• Hair slides, also known (in America) as Barrettes