intransitive. To pass from one place to another by a smooth and continuous movement, without effort or… along the surface of, or through, a liquid.

Of a stream: To glide, flow; apparently used by many writers with a reminiscence or echo of lap, v.1 (sense 4). Also with along. Occasionally of a…

intransitive. To sail or skim over the water, esp. in the manner of a schooner.