Sentence examples for sliding stone from inspiring English sources

Walking down the grassy slope into a breeze, I came upon it: Mandela's "sliding stone".

The "sliding stone" is to be found at the elegantly designed Nelson Mandela Museum – but not much else is.

The sport's most strenuous element consists of vigorously sweeping the ice in front of a sliding stone with brooms, which makes the rock travel faster and straighter.

It was set in about ten acres of olive and orange groves, surrounded by sliding stone walls on electronic tracks, which allowed the house to be shut up like a fortress.

Using "60 rocks from 15 different countries all around the world," Thockler creates an animated spectacle of spinning, sliding stone shapes.

In follow-up experiments, Nyberg's group found that, by scratching the ice themselves in various ways, they could alter the trajectory of sliding stones, even ones that weren't rotating.

Known in some circles as golf on ice with team members sliding stones down 140 feet of ice to a target on the other end.

Curling dates back to 16th-century Scotland, when plucky competitors slid stones called loafies on the frozen lochs and marshes.

The object of the game is to slide stones with handles across the ice, aiming for them to come to a stop on a target, called the house.

Eventually we even began to enjoy the routine of the locks, whose sides are grooved from centuries of ropes sliding over stone.

The players take turns sliding their stones down the ice using intense concentration.