play truant
• (of a pupil) stay away from school without leave or explanation.
• "he often played truant and he usually wrote his own absence notes"
Similar:
stay away from school,
not go to school,
be absent,
truant,
skive (off),
bunk off,
mitch (off),
play hooky,
goof off,
ditch,
play the wag,
bag it,
hook Jack,
mooch,
play the hop,
hop the wag,
