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,
• 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,
• 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,
• 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’.