Usually means: Engineless aircraft designed for gliding.
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  1. sailplane: Merriam-Webster
  2. sailplane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sailplane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sailplane: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sailplane: Vocabulary.com
  6. sailplane: Wordnik
  7. sailplane: Wiktionary
  8. sailplane: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sailplane: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sailplane: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sailplane: Dictionary.com
  12. Sailplane: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sailplane: Rhymezone
  14. sailplane: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sailplane: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sailplane: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sailplane: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sailplane: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sailplane: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sailplane: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sailplane: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Gliding Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See sailplaned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sailplane)

noun:  (aircraft) A glider that is optimised for soaring and is equipped with fixed wings and fuselage.
verb:  To fly in a sailplane.

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