Ground dashes are eligible to be cancelled into a slide. When this is performed, it is called a Dash Slide.

Dash Sliding costs one bar of Stamina.

Dash Sliding is useful for multiple reasons:

• Dash Sliding allows you to maintain some speed from a regular dash; a regular dash ends at regular walking speed.
• Dash Sliding allows you to travel more distance in comparison to a regular dash.
• Dash Sliding puts you into the slide state, which is useful for combat and doesn't lock you out of shooting.
• It only consumes one bar of stamina, which can be preferable to a Dash Jump.

Dash Sliding for the full duration is not advisable; sliding for the full duration will cause you to eventually move at a speed slower than walking; instead, cancel the slide roughly when the Dash Jump circle turns blue.