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Skidding vs Drifting - What's the difference?

skidding | drifting |

As verbs the difference between skidding and drifting

is that skidding is present participle of lang=en while drifting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between skidding and drifting

is that skidding is the motion of something that skids while drifting is a driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner.

As an adjective drifting is

moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.

skidding

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    drifting

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.
    • The drifting seaweed went where ever the currents pushed it.

    Noun

  • (motorsports) A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner.
  • The act by which something drifts.
  • * 2009 , Mazo de la Roche, Whiteoak Heritage (page 204)
    • Still, she did not regret him, for nothing Ernest could have given her would have equalled the delight of those romantic driftings on the lake with Eden.

    Verb

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