skidding vs sled

skidding

noun
  • The motion of something that skids. 

  • The logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest. 

sled

noun
  • A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.) 

  • A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger) 

  • A snowmobile. 

verb
  • To ride a sled. 

  • To convey on a sled. 

How often have the words skidding and sled occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )