skid
/ˈskɪd/ verb C2- (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning. · They skidded around the corner and accelerated up the street.
- To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- To protect or support with a skid or skids.
- To cause to move on skids.
- To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
He/she/it skids · Past skidded · Past participle skidded · -ing form skidding
Verb forms
- Base form
- skid
- He/she/it
- skids
- Past
- skidded
- Past participle
- skidded
- -ing form
- skidding
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