wheelspin

The spinning of the wheels of a vehicle on the surface of the ground with greatly reduced friction and little movement of the vehicle, especially when starting.

Near-synonym: wheelslip

A computer detects wheelspin and reduces power.

To drive with poor traction, so that the vehicle exhibits a wheelspin.

It was not unusual to see an ice cream van wheelspin away, dragging a runner into the service hatch as it went, especially on the police patches: […]

When, suddenly and inexplicably, the car had started he had wheelspun away from the kerb in his effort to keep it going.

To throw up (debris) from a wheelspin.

With only small encouragement from me, and using skills learned on a racing track, he gunned his Land-Rover forward, cut up the saloon and wheelspan a few stones its way as we turned down an unsurfaced track.