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hang glider

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hang glider
n.
1. A device resembling a kite from which a harnessed rider hangs while gliding from a height.
2. The rider of such a device.
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Noun1.hang gliderhang glider - a rider of a hang glider            
rider - a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)
2.hang glider - a glider resembling a large kite; the rider hangs from it while descending from a height
glider, sailplane - aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces


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Other scheduled performances include the Army's Golden Knights parachute team, a hang glider demonstration by paraplegic Dan Buchanan and flights by a B-1B bomber, a B-52 Stratofortress, an F-18 Hornet, NASA's ER-2 research aircraft, and the C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft.
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