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skidding

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1. skidding - Noun

2. skidding - Verb

Derived from skid

Meaning

of Skid

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly? Jodi Picoult

I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store is crowded I'll even go so far as dropping change all over the floor, nickels and dimes skidding in every direction. All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen. Nicole Krauss

This airport has been designed with big windows viewing the runways, so if there's a crash everybody can feast upon it with their own eyes. The fireball, the fuselage doing a slow skidding twirl, shedding its wings. John Updike

...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love. Nora Roberts

Additionally, the skier can use the same techniques to turn the ski away from the direction of movement, generating skidding forces between the skis and snow which further control the speed of the descent. Source: Internet

Both speeds are equal in modulus because the circles roll without skidding. Source: Internet

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