Skid
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Skid may refer to:
- Skid, a pallet, a wood or plastic platform for holding machinery or equipment
- Skid (aerodynamic), an outward side-slip in an aircraft turn
- Skid steering, a method of steering by braking tracks or wheels on one side of a vehicle, such as:
- Skid-steered tracked vehicles
- Skid loader, a small, usually wheeled vehicle used for loading and digging
- Skid mark, a mark left where two surfaces rub against each other, especially a locked vehicle wheel on the road
- Skid, a sled runner
- Skid road, a log path for removal of logs from a hilly forest
- Skid row, a neighborhood with a large number of vagrant people
- Skid, a type of fairground ride
- Skid (gang), a gang of disenfranchised, delinquent youth
- Skidder, a vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding"