Skidding

Verb

1. Present participle of skid

Full definition of skidding

Noun

1. The motion of something that skids.
• 1917, B. M. Bower, Starr of the Desert (page 57)When an automobile, for instance, traveled that road, it was with many skiddings in the sand on the turns, which it must take circumspectly if the driver did not care for the rocky, uneven floor of the desert itself.