skiing
n.— «“Ask my wife,” Ore said. He is famous for driving a doubledecker bus on two wheels—a technique called skiing—for 810 feet, a record featured on the cover of the “Guinness Book of World Records” in 1989.» —“Stunt driving is pay-to-play” by Eliav Appelbaum Camarillo Acorn (California) Sept. 28, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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