verb intranssaid of a vehicle: to slip or slide, usu sideways and out of the driver's controlto slip or slide verb transto apply a brake or skid to (a wheel)
the act or an instance of skiddinga runner used as part of the landing gear of an aircrafta plank or roller used to support, lift or move a structure or objecta device placed under a wheel to act as a brake, e.g. on a hillhit the skids informal to go into a rapid decline [orig in the sense ‘supporting beam’, perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to ski1]