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skip verb [ skɪp ]

• move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce.
• "she began to skip down the path"
Similar: caper, prance, trip, dance, bound, jump, leap, spring, hop, bounce, gambol, frisk, romp, cavort, bob, curvet,
Opposite: trudge,
• jump over a rope which is held at both ends by oneself or two other people and turned repeatedly over the head and under the feet, as a game or for exercise.
• "training was centred on running and skipping"
• omit (part of a book that one is reading, or a stage in a sequence that one is following).
• "the video manual allows the viewer to skip sections he's not interested in"
Similar: omit, leave out, miss out, dispense with, do without, pass over, bypass, skim over, steer clear of, disregard, ignore, give something a miss,
Opposite: include,
• fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss.
• "I wanted to skip my English lesson to visit my mother"
Similar: fail to attend, play truant from, miss, absent oneself from, take French leave from, cut, skive off, wag, play hooky from, goof off, play the wag from,
Opposite: attend,
• throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water.
• "they skipped stones across the creek"

skip noun

• a light, bouncing step; a skipping movement.
• "he moved with a strange, dancing skip"
• an act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.
• a person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.
Origin: Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin.

skip noun

• a large transportable open-topped container for building and other refuse.
• "I've salvaged a carpet from a skip"
• a cage or bucket in which men or materials are lowered and raised in mines and quarries.

skip noun

• the captain or director of a side at bowls or curling.

skip verb

• act as skip of (a side).
• "they lost to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson"
Origin: early 19th century (originally Scots): abbreviation of skipper1.

skep noun

• a straw or wicker beehive.
Origin: late Old English sceppe ‘basket’, from Old Norse skeppa ‘basket, bushel’.


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