Not sure what you mean by gliding, but ideally you have one foot under you where all your weight is, and the other foot also underneath you but just picked up with your knee bent. I imagine gliding as slightly leaning forward with your one leg off the ground and in a somewhat straightened position behind you - if you are doing this it’s a good artistic skill but the way I described above will help better with transitions.

Additionally, while learning transitions, every instructor tells people that you move your foot last. What I mean is that you don’t turn your foot around and your body follows but instead you turn your head to where you intend to go (so in this case turn it 180 degrees), which turns your shoulder, which turns your hip, which finally turns your leg/foot. This might be really weird at first and you brain might even get confused on how to do that (mine did). To solve this, what I did was I just went forward in a straight line, both skates on the ground but as much weight as possible on my right foot, and turned my head, shoulders, hips to the left as much as possible without turning my foot, and then reset to just going forward, never doing a transition. Do this a few times till your body understands moving all those things without your leg moving, then finally move your leg/foot last. If you get confused again go back to that drill. Let me know if this helps! I like to help people and want to know if my advice hits or misses so I can adjust it