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Skid Row (American band)
Skid Row, an American hard rock band formed in 1986 in New Jersey by Rachel Bolan and Dave "Snake" Sabo, fronted by Sebastian Bach on its multi-platinum 1989 debut; its 1991 album Slave to the Grind was the first heavy metal album to debut at No. 1 on Billboard.
Skid Row (Irish band)
Skid Row: Dublin blues-rock band formed 1967 by Brush Shiels, Phil Lynott, Noel Bridgeman; Gary Moore joined 1968. CBS albums Skid (UK No. 30) and 34 Hours; split 1972; distinct from the American glam metal band.
Skid Row, Los Angeles
Skid Row, also known as Central City East, is a downtown Los Angeles neighborhood with the densest concentration of homelessness in LA County, several thousand residents on a few dozen blocks.
Skid-steer loader
A skid-steer loader, also called a skid loader, is a small rigid-frame machine that lifts and powers front attachments and steers by skidding, turning within its own length.
Skidamarink
Skidamarink, also Skinnamarink, is a nonsense-word children's love song from the 1910 Broadway musical The Echo by Feist and Piantadosi, made famous as the signature closing song of Sharon, Lois & Bram.
Skíðblaðnir
Skíðblaðnir (Skidbladnir) is Freyr's foldable ship in Norse mythology, made by the dwarf sons of Ivaldi, best of ships per Grímnismál, carrying all the Æsir with a fair wind, distinct from the largest ship Naglfar.
Skidmore College
Skidmore College: private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York; founded 1903 by Lucy Skidmore Scribner as the Young Women's Industrial Club, chartered 1922; coeducational since 1971; motto Creative Thought Matters.
Skidmore Owings
Skidmore Owings is not a person but a truncated form of the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, referring to two NAE-elected SOM structural engineers, William Baker and Mark Sarkisian.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is an American architecture, urban planning, and engineering firm founded in Chicago in 1936, known for Lever House, the Sears Tower, and the Burj Khalifa.
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.