skid

verb

/skɪd/

[intransitive]

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they skid	/skɪd/ /skɪd/
he / she / it skids	/skɪdz/ /skɪdz/
past simple skidded	/ˈskɪdɪd/ /ˈskɪdɪd/
past participle skidded	/ˈskɪdɪd/ /ˈskɪdɪd/
-ing form skidding	/ˈskɪdɪŋ/ /ˈskɪdɪŋ/

(+ adv./prep.) (usually of a vehicle) to slide forward or to one side in a way that shows a loss of control打滑；侧滑；滑行
- The car skidded on the ice and went straight into the wall.汽车在冰上打滑，径直撞到了墙上。
- She could feel they were skidding.她能感觉到它们在打滑。
- The taxi skidded to a halt just in time.出租车滑行了一段路后，及时停了下来。
- Her foot skidded on the wet floor and she fell heavily.她一只脚在湿地板上一滑，重重地摔了一跤。
Extra Examples
- A truck had skidded out of control on the icy road.一辆卡车在结冰的道路上失控打滑。
- One rider came off as his bike skidded sideways.一名骑手因自行车侧滑而摔倒。
- We skidded and slid across the wet cobblestones.我们在潮湿的鹅卵石路上打滑。
Topics Transport by car or lorryc2
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Word Originlate 17th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘supporting beam’): perhaps related to Old Norse skíth ‘billet, snowshoe’.

skid

noun

/skɪd/

Idioms

the movement of a vehicle when it suddenly slides to one side because you have lost control of it侧滑；打滑；突然向一侧滑行
- The motorbike went into a skid.摩托车朝一侧滑了出去。
- The skid marks on the road showed how fast the car had been travelling.公路上留下的滑行痕迹说明这辆车当时开得有多快。
Topics Transport by car or lorryc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verb + skid
- get into
- go into
skid + noun
- mark
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a part that is on the bottom of some aircraft, next to the wheels, and is used for landing（飞机的）起落橇，滑橇
- the skids of a helicopter直升机的起落橇

Word Originlate 17th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘supporting beam’): perhaps related to Old Norse skíth ‘billet, snowshoe’.

Idioms

be on the skids

(informal) to be in a bad situation that will get worse逐渐衰落；走下坡路
- The government was on the skids for months before the election.选举前几个月，政府一直在下滑。
Topics Difficulty and failurec2

put the skids under somebody/something

(informal) to stop somebody/something from being successful or making progress使失败；使走下坡路Topics Difficulty and failurec2