Rolling bearing is a key component of rotating machinery, with the trend of rotating machinery towards to higher speed and big thrust weight ratio. Bearing skidding has become an important form of early failure that seriously affects the service performance and life of rotating machinery equipment. Therefore bearing skidding has always been a hot issue for related scholars. From the aspects of skidding behavior and failure analysis of skidding damage, the research progress on rolling bearing skid tests were summarized.Furthermore, the influence factors of bearing skidding rate and skidding were discussed emphatically.Then, the influence law of bearing skidding was analyzed, and the development future of bearing skidding research was prospected.