Skid

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Skid may refer to:

• Skid, a type of pallet, a metal, wood or plastic platform for holding machinery or equipment. Some pallets have planks across the bottom level, flush with the floor, but a skid has no planks along the full length or width to form a bottom level on the floor.
• Skid (aerodynamic), an outward side-slip in an aircraft turn
• Skid steering, a method of steering in which wheels or tracks are skidded sideways
  • 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 row, a neighborhood with a large number of vagrant people
• Skid, a type of fairground ride
• Short-term for script kiddie

In logging

• Skid road, a log path for removal of logs from a hilly forest
• Skidder, a vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest

See also

• Skidding resistance or road slipperiness
• Skids (disambiguation)

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