What is "skid"

Skid \Skid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skidded; p. pr. & vb. n. Skidding.]

1. To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.

2. To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.
   --Dickens.

3. (Forestry) To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.

Skid \Skid\ (sk[i^]d), n. [Icel. sk[=i][eth] a billet of wood. See Shide.] [Written also skeed.]

1. A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose.

2. A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure. Specifically:

   1. pl. (Naut.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.
      --Totten.

   2. One of a pair of timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling.

   3. One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.

3. (A["e]ronautics) A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.

4. A low movable platform for supporting heavy items to be transported, typically of two layers, and having a space between the layers into which the fork of a fork lift can be inserted; it is used to conveniently transport heavy objects by means of a fork lift; -- a skid without wheels is the same as a pallet.

5. pl. Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or downfall; -- used mostly in the phrase

   on the skids and

   hit the skids.

6. [From the v.] Act of skidding; -- called also side slip.

Skid \Skid\, v. i.

1. To slide without rotating; -- said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.

2. To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip; -- said esp. of a cycle or automobile.

c.1600, "beam or plank on which something rests," especially on which something heavy can be rolled from place to place (1782), of uncertain origin, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse skið "stick of wood" (see ski (n.)). As "a sliding along" from 1890; specifically of motor vehicles from 1903. Skid-mark is from 1914.\n

\nIn the timber regions of the American West, skids laid down one after another to form a road were "a poor thing for pleasure walks, but admirably adapted for hauling logs on the ground with a minimum of friction" ["Out West" magazine, October 1903]. A skid as something used to facilitate downhill motion led to figurative phrases such as hit the skids "go into rapid decline" (1909), and see skid row.

1670s, "apply a skid to (a wheel, to keep it from turning)," from skid (n.). Meaning "slide along" first recorded 1838; extended sense of "slip sideways" (on a wet road, etc.) first recorded 1884. The original notion is of a block of wood for stopping a wheel; the modern senses are from the notion of a wheel slipping when blocked from revolving.

n. 1 An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car. 2 A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan. 3 (context by extension English) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose. 4 A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure. 5 # A runner of a sled. 6 # A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels. 7 # A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet. 8 # (context nautical in the plural English) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo. 9 # One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard. 2 (context transitive English) To protect or support with a skid or skids. 3 (context transitive English) To cause to move on skids. 4 (context transitive English) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.

1. n. one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects

2. a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation [syn: brake shoe, shoe]

3. an unexpected slide [syn: slip, sideslip]

4. [also: skidding, skidded]

1. v. slide without control; "the car skidded in the curve on the wet road"

2. elevate onto skids

3. apply a brake or skid to

4. move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn: slip, slue, slew, slide]

5. [also: skidding, skidded]

Skid or Skids may refer to:

• Skid, a type of pallet
• Skid (aerodynamics), an outward side-slip in an aircraft turn
• Skid (automobile), an automobile handling condition where one or more tires are slipping relative to the road
• Skids, vehicles with continuous track
• Skids, or skid loaders, a vehicle
• Skid, a sled runner
• Skid, short-term for script kiddie

Skid is a 1970 debut album by Irish band Skid Row featuring guitar ace Gary Moore.

In a straight flight, the tail of the airplane aligns the fuselage into the relative wind. However, in the beginning of a turn, when the ailerons are being applied in order to bank the airplane, the ailerons also cause an adverse yaw of the airplane. For example, if the airplane is rolling clockwise (from the pilot point of view), the airplane yaws to the left. It assumes a crab-like attitude relative to the wind. This is called a slip. The air is flowing crosswise over the fuselage. In order to correct this adverse slip, the pilot must apply rudder (right rudder in this example). If the pilot applies too much rudder, the airplane will then slip to the other side. This is called a skid.

The skid is more dangerous than the slip if the airplane is close to a stall. In the slip, the raised wing — the left one if the airplane is turning to the right — will stall before the lowered one, and the airplane will reduce the bank angle, which prevents the stall. In the skid, the lowered wing will stall before the raised one, and the airplane will tighten the turn, and the stall can develop to a spin.

At high altitudes, there is plenty of space for recovery. But during the final approach, when the airplane is close to the ground, a stall-spin accident is often fatal. A common cause of this accident is to enter a skidding turn in the airfield traffic pattern on the turn from base leg to final approach, unconsciously using excessive rudder in an attempt to tighten the turn and avoid overshooting the runway centreline.

Deliberate skids are used in aerobatics and aerial combat. Deliberate slips done with vigorous application of roll and opposite rudder (lower the right wing and step on the left rudder) can be used as a dive brake. By balancing the roll's turn to the right with the rudder's yaw to the left, the plane continues to fly straight ahead but it presents its side rather than its nose to the airstream. The induced drag from this "clumsy" position slows the otherwise sleek airplane. By modulating the amount of skid with rudder and aileron, the pilot can modulate the braking. Thus the plane can be slowed down quickly in level flight or the descent to a landing can be dramatically steepened while holding the approach speed to a desired value.

An automobile skid is an automobile handling condition where one or more tires are slipping relative to the road, and the overall handling of the vehicle has been affected.

Subtypes of skid include:

• fishtailing, where the vehicle yaws back and forth across the direction of motion.
• spin or spinout where a vehicle rotates in one direction during the skid.
• understeer and oversteer where front or rear wheels lose traction during cornering, causing a vehicle to follow a larger or smaller turning radius.
• Burnout where a vehicle slips or spins its tires during acceleration.
• skidding during braking (with or without directional or yaw changes).

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