Without gliding motion; not smooth or flowing; lacking the quality of smooth continuous movement.
From 'glide' plus the negation suffix '-less,' which means lacking or without the quality described by the root word.
Glideless motion describes jerky, stop-and-start movements—like a robot compared to a dancer—and there's actually a physics reason why: energy is lost in each interruption.
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