Snaking

Snaking is a technique in popular Nintendo racing games such as in the Mario Kart Series and the F-Zero series. It first originated from the Gamecube game F-Zero GX, and was later put in the game Mario Kart DS, which made the technique extremely popular among fans of both games.

What is Snaking?
To snake, you must drift right or left, and do a mini turbo, and continue to do this multiple times in a straight stretch on a course such as in Figure 8 Circuit in Mario Kart DS.

Mario Kart DS Snaking
As said before, Snaking got popular because of Mario Kart DS. In the game, you would be able to perfect it with only a few characters such as with Yoshi, Dry Bones, or R.O.B.. Others also perfer Luigi and Toad. The snaking technique has also gained minor controversy on the account of people using it constintly while playing on Wifi, making the game extremly challanging to new commers.

The Name
It's called snaking because the movement resembles that of what an actual snake would do.