skip

Meaning of skip

verb
  1. move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce.
    she began to skip down the path
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss.
    I wanted to skip my English lesson to visit my mother
    try not to skip breakfast
  5. throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water.
    they skipped stones across the creek
noun
  1. a light, bouncing step; a skipping movement.
    he moved with a strange, dancing skip
  2. an act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.
  3. a person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.

Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin.

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

noun

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

verb
  1. act as skip of (a side).
    they lost to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson

early 19th century (originally Scots): abbreviation of skipper1.

noun

a straw or wicker beehive.

late Old English sceppe ‘basket’, from Old Norse skeppa ‘basket, bushel’.

Information about skip

  • The plural form of skip is: skips.
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Hyphenation of skip

skip

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • skip is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

skip synonyms

Meaning omission:

omission

Meaning jump:

jump

Meaning cut:

cut

Meaning hop:

hop

Meaning decamp:

decamp, vamoose

Meaning skim:

skim, skitter

Meaning skip or dance about in a lively or playful way:

caper

Meaning (of a person) walk or move around with ostentatious, exaggerated movements:

prance

Meaning walk, run, or dance with quick light steps:

trip

Meaning (of a person) move in a quick and lively way:

dance

Meaning walk or run with leaping strides:

bound

Meaning jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force:

leap

Meaning move or jump suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards:

spring

Meaning move in a particular direction in an energetic, happy, or enthusiastic manner:

bounce

Meaning run or jump about playfully:

gambol

Meaning skip or leap playfully; frolic:

frisk

Meaning (especially of a child or animal) play roughly and energetically:

romp

Meaning jump or dance around excitedly:

cavort

Meaning make a quick, short movement up and down:

bob

Meaning (of a horse) perform a series of jumps on the hind legs:

curvet

Meaning fail or neglect to do:

omit

Meaning go past or round:

bypass

Meaning pay no attention to; ignore:

disregard

Meaning refuse to take notice of or acknowledge; disregard intentionally:

ignore

Meaning fail to attend, participate in, or watch:

miss

Meaning (especially with reference to an animal's tail) move or cause to move rapidly to and fro:

wag

skip antonyms

Meaning walk slowly and with heavy steps, typically because of exhaustion or harsh conditions:

trudge

Meaning comprise or contain as part of a whole:

include

Meaning be present at (an event, meeting, or function):

attend

Translation of skip

Anagrams of skip

kips, pisk, spik

Words that rhyme with skip

Skip, askip, landskip, townskip, upskip, heirskip, overskip, lantskip, outskip

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