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That depends on what you mean by "fluids". Most people just mean "liquids" when they say this, but many scientists and engineers use the word "fluid" to mean both liquids AND gasses. That's because, from a practical standpoint, liquids and gasses act similarly, in ways that solid objects usually don't.

For example, both liquids AND gasses provoke drag effects.

Atmospheric drag affects anything that flies or even just waves in the air. It's effectively the friction or inertia of the air hitting whatever's moving through it. Drag always wants to slow things down - no matter which direction something's trying to go, drag acts in the opposite direction. This is a major concern of aircraft manufacturers and pilots. It's also one of the main reasons low-orbiting satellites eventually fail -- they're pulled down into the atmosphere so low that they start to spiral in (they're safely de-orbited before actually crashing, of course). Drag acts similarly in liquids, pulling against the intended motion. This is the force that you pull against while swimming.

Can drag happen in solids? Well... not on time scales we humans usually think of. On the other hand, geologists studying the Earth's mantle (the part between the crust and the core) talk about the mantle's "viscosity". That's the same word we use to talk about the gooey-ness of syrup and the fluidity of vegetable oil. On long time scales, scales meaningful to the buildup of stresses in the Earth, the solid Earth can act like a fluid, flowing slowly under pressure. In that case, it wouldn't be exactly inappropriate to use the word "drag" with a solid... but frankly, it's just not done. After all, what would be dragging THROUGH a solid body like the Earth?

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