古ノルド語のskith, stick, strip of woodに由来する可能性があり、語源的にはskiと同じ。 山で伐採した木を運び下ろすために貯木場に薪で敷かれた伐採用トラックを指すのに使われ、派生してskid, skidding matなどになり、後に横に滑る、横滑りの動詞の意味で使われる。
英語の語源
skid (n.)
c. 1600, "beam or plank on which something rests," especially on which something heavy can be rolled from place to place (1782), of uncertain origin, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse skie "stick of wood" (see ski (n.)). As "a sliding along" from 1890; specifically of motor vehicles from 1903. Skid-mark is from 1914.
In the timber regions of the American West, skids laid down one after another to form a road were "a poor thing for pleasure walks, but admirably adapted for hauling logs on the ground with a minimum of friction" ["Out West" magazine, October 1903]. A skid as something used to facilitate downhill motion led to figurative phrases such as hit the skids "go into rapid decline" (1909), and see skid row.
skid (v.)
1670s, "apply a skid to (a wheel, to keep it from turning)," from skid (n.). Meaning "slide along" first recorded 1838; extended sense of "slip sideways" (on a wet road, etc.) first recorded 1884. The original notion is of a block of wood for stopping a wheel; the modern senses are from the notion of a wheel slipping when blocked from revolving.
例文
1. I slammed the brakes on and went into a skid .
私は急にブレーキを踏んだが、車がスリップした。
2.He became a skid row type of drunkard.
彼はそのようなスラム街でよく見られる酔っ払いになった。
3.to be on skid row
スラムに住む
4.He braked suddenly，causing the front wheels to skid .
彼は急ブレーキをかけて前の車輪を滑らせた。
5.He braked suddenly，causing the front wheels to skid .