Kid vs. Skid — What's the Difference?

A young goat.

The action of sliding or slipping over a surface, often sideways.

One of the young of certain similar animals.

A plank, log, or timber, usually one of a pair, used as a support or as a track for sliding or rolling heavy objects.

The flesh of a young goat.

A pallet for loading or handling goods, especially one having solid sideboards and no bottom.

Leather made from the skin of a young goat; kidskin.

One of several logs or timbers forming a skid road.

An article made from this leather.

Skids Nautical A wooden framework attached to the side of a ship to prevent damage, as when unloading.

A child.

A shoe or drag applying pressure to a wheel to brake a vehicle.

A young person.

A runner in the landing gear of certain aircraft.

(Slang)Pal. Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a young person

A period of sharp decline or repeated losses

Made of the skin or with the meat of a young goat.

Skids A path to ruin or failure

(Informal)Younger than oneself

To slide, especially roughly or heavily

To mock playfully; tease

To slide sideways while moving because of loss of traction

To deceive in fun; fool

To slide from forward momentum, especially during an attempt to stop

To deceive (oneself), especially by allowing one's desires to cloud one's judgment

To move sideways in a turn because of insufficient banking. Used of an airplane.

To engage in teasing or good-humored fooling

(Informal)To fall or decline sharply

To bear young. Used of a goat or similar animal.

To brake (a wheel) with a skid.

A young goat.

To haul on a skid or skids.

Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.

An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.

Kidskin.

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.

(uncountable) The meat of a young goat.

(by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.

A young antelope.

A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.

(informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.

A runner of a sled.

(informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.

A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.

(informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.

A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.

(in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.

Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo.

(colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.

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

(dated) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.

(aviation) A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.

(nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

(sports) also losing skid A losing streak.

A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

(internet slang) A stepchild.

To make a fool of (someone).

(internet slang) A script kiddie.

To dupe or deceive (someone).

(intransitive) (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 make a joke with (someone).

(intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.

(intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth.

To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.

To joke.

(transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.

A young goat.

(transitive) To cause to move on skids.

A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on.

(transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.

A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.

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.

Gloves made of kid.

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

A small wooden mess tub; - a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.

A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.

Among pugilists, thieves, gunfighters, etc., a youthful expert; - chiefly used attributively; as, kid Jones.

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.

A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or downfall; - used mostly in the phrase on the skids and hit the skids.

To bring forth a young goat.

Act of skidding; - called also side slip.

Of Kythe.

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

A young person of either sex;

To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.

Soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat;

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

English dramatist (1558-1594)

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

A human offspring (son or daughter) of any age;

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

Young goat

One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects

Tell false information to for fun;

A restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation

Be silly or tease one another;

An unexpected slide

Slide without control;

Elevate onto skids

Apply a brake or skid to

Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner;