Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skid

plural of skidding

(UK, slang) motorcycle helmet

(tenpin bowling) A bowl where the ball skids a long way before it starts to roll.

A black mark left on a road surface from the sliding or skidding tires of a motor vehicle that has lost traction. / Any other mark or stain left on a surface from a sliding or rubbing object.

plural of skid mark

(derogatory) An especially dilapidated section of a city, characterized by abandoned or run-down buildings and vices such as drug dealing and prostitution, and frequented by homeless people.

Alternative form of nonskid

(US, forestry) A rough cleared right of way with logs embedded cross-wise on which logs being harvested would slide or be dragged or skidded.

(intransitive, idiomatic) To fail; to decline.