- (+ adv./prep.)
(usually of a vehicle 通常指车辆 to slide forward or to one side in a way that shows a loss of control 侧滑；打滑；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. 她可以感觉到他们在打滑。 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 ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryc2A truck had skidded out of control on the icy road. 一辆卡车在结冰的道路上打滑了。 One rider came off as his bike skidded sideways. 当他的自行车侧滑时，一名骑手摔了下来。 We skidded and slid across the wet cobblestones. 我们滑行并滑过湿的鹅卵石。
More Like This Consonant-doubling verbsConsonant-doubling verbsWord Originlate 17th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘supporting beam’): perhaps related to Old Norse skíth ‘billet, snowshoe’.
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。 🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + skid- get into
- go into
- mark
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，政府一直处于下滑状态。
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