landing skid

1. 1.

   one of two parts of the landing gear of a helicopter

   Broaderlanding gear

   Part ofhelicopter

Questions about landing skid

What does landing skid mean?

landing skid means "one of two parts of the landing gear of a helicopter".

Is landing skid a common word?

landing skid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.