Glide

Glide is a card sleight used to control the top or bottom card keeping it at that position during a deal. It comes from the French equivalent term, glisser la carte (glide [or slide] the card).

The term has been in use in English since Roterberg (1897).

In Card Control By Arthur H. Buckley, the Glide can be used as a shift. The Glide Shift can be used to control a card to the top or bottom while giving the illusion of squaring up the deck.

Descriptions

• The Slide, page 116 in Sleight of Hand by Edwin Sachs (1877).
• The Glide, page 42 in New Era Card Tricks by August Roterberg (1897).
• The Royal Road to Card Magic By Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue, page 66.