Glided, Glid or Glode - English Language Usage Stack Exchange That doesn't mean there isn't an interesting question here—it would be interesting to explore, for example, where the forms glid and glode occur (I would guess the latter is the more restricted of the two), and whether there used to be more variation throughout the Anglosphere than there is now The trouble with the question is that it's
Word that means To move speedily, yet elegantly and effortlessly. @Mari-LouA (Not a quibble, just commenting because I looked this up and found it interesting ) As you say, the simple past of glide is pretty much always glided today, but glid existed in the past — OED and Merriam–Webster report that it persisted into the 20th century, and Google Ngrams finds genuine examples up till the mid 19th century: goo gl nSmBXR