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Skidros
Skidros (Σκίδρος, Scidrus) was an ancient Greek settlement on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lucania between Pyxus and Laüs, attested by Herodotus 6.21.1 as a refuge of Sybarite exiles after 510 BC; its exact site, possibly Sapri, remains unknown.
Skids (character)
Skids (Sally Blevins), Marvel Comics mutant and X-Factor trainee debuting in X-Factor #7 (1986); generates a frictionless deflection force field; ex-Morlock, X-Terminator, New Mutant, MLF member, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
Skies of Arcadia
Skies of Arcadia (Eternal Arcadia) is Sega Overworks' 2000 Dreamcast JRPG of sky pirates Vyse, Aika, and Fina; GameCube Legends version 2002-03; 93 Metascore, ~90k/220k sales, never remastered, 2025 trademarks.
Skiff
A skiff is a small, light, open boat, generally flat-bottomed, covering regional craft from Thames rowing skiffs to Mississippi work boats and Olympic racing classes like the 49er.
Skiffle
Skiffle: 1950s British folk-jazz-blues hybrid played on homemade instruments like washboards and tea-chest basses. Lonnie Donegan's 1956 "Rock Island Line" sparked the craze; the Quarrymen, the Beatles' first band, began as a skiffle group.
SkiFree
SkiFree is a 1991 Windows downhill skiing game by Microsoft programmer Chris Pirih, released in Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3, famous for the Abominable Snow Monster that chases skiers past 2,000 meters.
Skiing
Skiing: sliding over snow on skis for transport, recreation, and competition, from 9,000-year-old evidence to FIS (founded 1924, Chamonix), alpine and nordic disciplines, equipment evolution, and climate pressures.
Skiing in Australia
Skiing in Australia: snow sports in the Australian Alps (NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, ACT). Began at Kiandra 1861 with Norwegian miners; Perisher is the largest resort; season runs June to September with heavy snowmaking reliance.
Skiing in Europe
Skiing in Europe is a continent-wide winter sport built on thousands of ski areas across the Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites, Carpathians, and Scandinavia, led by France, Austria, and Switzerland.
Skiing in the Midwestern and Southern United States
Skiing in the Midwestern and Southern United States takes place at small resorts in the Great Lakes states and Southern Appalachians, sustained by heavy snowmaking near large populations.
Skijoring
Skijoring is a winter sport in which a skier is pulled by a horse, dog team, or snowmobile; competitive horse-drawn racing, popular in the American Mountain West, reaches 40 mph over jumps.
Skikda
Skikda (سكيكدة), ancient Rusicade, is a Mediterranean port city in northeastern Algeria, formerly French Philippeville (1838-1962). Now Algeria's major petrochemical hub with the country's largest refinery and a 4-train Sonatrach LNG terminal.
Skikda LNG Terminal
The Skikda LNG Terminal, known as GL1K, is an Algerian LNG export complex at Skikda owned by Sonatrach, commissioned in 1972 as Algeria's second plant.
Skikda Province
Skikda Province (سكيكدة) is a coastal wilaya of northeastern Algeria, capital Skikda (ancient Rusicade), about 4,138 km² with 13 daïras, 38 communes, five ports, and a major refinery and petrochemical complex.
Skild AI
Skild AI is an American robotics-AI startup founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, building the Skild Brain robot foundation model.
Skill
Skill: learned proficient task performance (ease, speed, accuracy) built through extensive practice, also called skill learning. Covers deliberate practice (Ericsson 1993), meta-analyses showing about 19% of variance explained, and practice design.
SKILL (music)
"SKILL" is a 2003 single by the Japanese anison group JAM Project, released as the opening theme of the PlayStation 2 game 2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha.
Skill India
Skill India is India's national skilling initiative launched 15 July 2015, run by MSDE through PMKVY, JSS, NAPS, and ITI-based CTS, with over 1.60 crore PMKVY trainees and a 2025 CAG audit of outcomes.
Skill Manager architecture
A skill manager is a robot software component that loads, initializes, and monitors parametric robot skills such as pick-and-place, letting a planner compose them into complete behaviors.
Skilla Baby
Skilla Baby (Trevon Gardner, born 1998) is a Detroit rapper signed to Geffen Records, mentored by Sada Baby, known for We Eat the Most, The Coldest, and the 2026 Nas-co-executive-produced debut album The Price of Fame.
Skilled worker
A skilled worker, or skilled laborer, is a worker whose occupation requires substantial training, education, or experience, with no single international definition; high-skilled OECD earners make 75% more.
Skillet (band)
Skillet is an American Christian rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1996 and led since its founding by John Cooper, known for mixing heavy riffs with symphonic and electronic elements.
Skillhouse (ͼUSE)
Skillhouse is a 2025 American satirical horror film written and directed by Josh Stolberg, starring TikTok creators Bryce Hall and Hannah Stocking with 50 Cent and Neal McDonough. Ten influencers are trapped in a content house where likes decide survival; released July 11, 2025 via Fathom Entertainment to largely negative reviews.
Skillshare
Skillshare is an American online learning community founded in New York City in 2011, offering a subscription catalog of thousands of video classes focused mainly on creative skills like illustration, design, and photography.
Skillsoft
Skillsoft is an American corporate learning and skills management company headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, selling online training content and the Percipio learning platform to organizations for workforce development.
Skillsville
Skillsville (formerly Mashopolis) is a Twin Cities PBS animated PBS KIDS series, premiered March 3, 2025, in which Cora, Dev, and Rae use avatars in a virtual city game to build executive function, self-regulation, and career skills for ages 4-8.
Skilurus
Skilurus, also rendered Skiluros or Scilurus, was the best-known king of the Hellenized Late Scythian kingdom in Crimea, reigning in the second half of the 2nd century BCE.
Skimmed milk
Skimmed milk (skim milk, nonfat milk): cow's milk with milkfat reduced below 0.5% by centrifugal cream separation, retaining protein and calcium with fewer calories (84 vs 152 per serving) and reduced fat-soluble vitamins; often vitamin A fortified.
Skin
Skin, the body's largest organ (integument), has three layers: epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis. Covers 1.5–2 m², up to 20 kg; keratinocytes form ~90% of the epidermis; barrier, sensory, thermoregulatory, immune, and vitamin D functions.
Skin (2018 feature film)
Skin is Guy Nattiv's 2018 biographical drama about neo-Nazi Bryon Widner, starring Jamie Bell and Danielle Macdonald; premiered at TIFF 2018, released in US theaters July 26, 2019, distinct from Nattiv's Oscar-winning 2018 short of the same name.