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wheel slide

wheel slide is the alternative form of wheelslide.

Meaning of wheelslide

Noun

wheelslide (countable and uncountable, plural wheelslides)

  1. A condition caused when railway vehicle wheels lose adhesion when the brakes are applied, due to slippery rails, and the train slides along the track instead of slowing down.
    • Near-synonyms: skid, skidding
    Synonyms:
    skid, skidding

Forms of wheel slide

pluralwheel slides

Questions about wheel slide

What is wheel slide the alternative form of?
Wheel slide is the alternative form of wheelslide.

Words near wheel slide in the dictionary

  1. wheel press
  2. wheel presses
  3. wheel round
  4. wheel shop
  5. wheel shops
  6. wheel slide
  7. wheel spider
  8. wheel spiders
  9. wheel spinner
  10. wheel spinners
  11. wheel stitch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheel slide (page history and authors); wheelslide (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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