"smoothly navigate" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe an action or process, usually of moving from one place to another, and could be used in many contexts. For example, "We smoothly navigated the narrow path in the forest."
This construction was first known as the "rocking" skate (and is now known as a "quad") because it allowed the skater to easily shift on the skates in order to smoothly navigate turns and perform other maneuvers.
Take "The Jitterbug Waltz," with Jacob Ming-Trent seductively singing "The night is getting on/The band is getting slow" to Johmaalya Adelekan as they smoothly navigate the dance floor.
Moreover, last year it was painfully clear which of the six designers could smoothly navigate the mammoth river basin that is eBay, and which neophytes floundered in alluvial sludge.
VolleeX optimizes compression to minimize bandwidth requirements and also leverages the 3G mobile networks in such a way that gamers can be easily and smoothly navigate virtual worlds.
We almost say, "that is it then, what else is there?" But no, we want to know more, and with Costa's guidance we smoothly navigate the chapter and soon enter the jaws of death, a "Struggle for Existence," the topic of Chapter III.
We crossed under the historic Pont Valentré, bowing to the applause of the strollers above as we smoothly navigated the lock.
Cape Verdean and Jewish; Virginia and Massachusetts; gay and Baptist; slave and free; a counselor to the powerful and to the powerless: Peter Gomes smoothly navigated his own Mayflower through this sea of identities, because he anchored himself to none.
Taking the concept of multitasking to a new level, she smoothly navigated a pull-down menu to sign up for some shift work in an underground mine; monitored the fluctuations in a chart that tracked the hunger and health levels of her monkey, and clicked on a box that sent a message that said "Hi" to this Cleaters person.
Unlike Ms. Deschanel, who looks mighty surprised to be in this movie or mighty alarmed, you hang on to Mr. Wahlberg, who smoothly navigates the broad, lurching comedy (notably a wonderfully eccentric and comic monologue) as well as the pockets of dread.
The next morning the pilot smoothly navigated our DC-10 into Ndjili airport in Kinshasa, where we parked near several wreckages of less fortunate airplanes.
In tests, the robot proved able to drive on its own for up to 20 minutes at a time, smoothly navigating actual pedestrian groups without any collisions.
