hydroplaning
hydroplaning is the present participle and gerund of hydroplane.
Meaning of hydroplane
Verb
hydroplane (third-person singular simple present hydroplanes, present participle hydroplaning, simple past and past participle hydroplaned)
- To skim the surface of a body of water while moving at high speed.
- For a car or similar vehicle to slide along the road on a thin film of water between the road and the tyres. This occurs when a car has some speed and comes to somewhere with more water on the road than the weight of the car and the grooves in the tyre tread pattern (if any) can push away. The result is almost no traction at all for steering or braking.
- Don't drive too fast on wet roads or the car may hydroplane and cause you to lose control of the vehicle.
- Synonyms:
- aquaplane
Noun
hydroplaning (countable and uncountable, plural hydroplanings)
- The loss of contact with the road because of surface water; the act of aquaplaning.
- Synonyms:
- aquaplaning, waterplaning
Synonyms of hydroplaning
Forms of hydroplaning
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Words formed from hydroplaning
Questions about hydroplaning
- What does hydroplaning mean?
- Hydroplaning means the loss of contact with the road because of surface water; the act of aquaplaning.
- What is hydroplaning the present participle and gerund of?
- Hydroplaning is the present participle and gerund of hydroplane.
- What part of speech is hydroplaning?
- Hydroplaning is a noun.
- What is the plural of hydroplaning?
- The plural of hydroplaning is hydroplanings.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hydroplaning (page history and authors); hydroplane (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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