Skid vs. Slipping — What's the Difference?

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

Slipping is a technique used in boxing that is similar to bobbing. It is considered one of the four basic defensive strategies, along with blocking, holding, and clinching.

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

To move smoothly, easily, and quietly

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

To move stealthily; steal

One of several logs or timbers forming a skid road.

To escape, as from a grasp, fastening, or restraint

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

To put on or remove a piece of clothing smoothly or quietly

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

To slide involuntarily and lose one's balance or foothold.

A runner in the landing gear of certain aircraft.

To move accidentally out of place or fail to gain traction

A period of sharp decline or repeated losses

To pass gradually, easily, or imperceptibly into a different state

Skids A path to ruin or failure

To decline from a former or standard level; fall off

To slide, especially roughly or heavily

To elapse, especially quickly or without notice

To slide sideways while moving because of loss of traction

To fall into fault or error. Often used with up.

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

To place or insert smoothly and quietly

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

To insert (a remark, for example) unobtrusively

(Informal)To fall or decline sharply

To put on or remove (clothing) easily or quickly

To brake (a wheel) with a skid.

To get loose or free from; elude

To haul on a skid or skids.

To fail to be remembered by

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

To release, loose, or unfasten

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.

To unleash or free (a dog or hawk) to pursue game.

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

To give birth to prematurely. Used of animals.

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

To dislocate (a bone).

A runner of a sled.

To pass (a knitting stitch) from one needle to another without knitting it.

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

To make a slip from (a plant or plant part).

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

The act or an instance of slipping or sliding.

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

An accident or mishap, especially resulting in a fall.

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

An error in conduct or thinking; a mistake.

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

A slight error or oversight, as in speech or writing

(sports) also losing skid A losing streak.

A docking place for a ship between two piers.

(internet slang) A stepchild.

A slipway.

(internet slang) A script kiddie.

(Nautical) The difference between a vessel's actual speed through water and the speed at which the vessel would move if the screw were propelling against a solid.

(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.

A woman's undergarment of dress length with shoulder straps.

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

A half-slip.

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

A pillowcase.

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

A smooth crack at which rock strata have moved on each other.

(transitive) To cause to move on skids.

A small fault.

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

The relative displacement of formerly adjacent points on opposite sides of a fault.

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.

The difference between optimal and actual output in a mechanical device.

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

Movement between two parts where none should exist, as between a pulley and a belt.

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

A sideways movement of an airplane when banked too far.

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 part of a plant cut or broken off for grafting or planting; a scion or cutting.

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

A long narrow piece; a strip.

Act of skidding; - called also side slip.

A slender youthful person

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

A small piece of paper, especially a small form, document, or receipt

To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.

A narrow pew in a church.

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

The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.

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

Moving as on a slippery surface;

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

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

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

An unexpected slide

Slide without control;

Elevate onto skids

Apply a brake or skid to

Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner;