skips
Meaning of skips
plural noun
a straw or wicker beehive.
late Old English sceppe ‘basket’, from Old Norse skeppa ‘basket, bushel’.
verb, 3rd person present- move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce.
she began to skip down the path
- 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
- 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
- throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water.
they skipped stones across the creek
- 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.
Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin.
plural 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.
plural noun
the captain or director of a side at bowls or curling.
verb, 3rd person present- act as skip of (a side).
they lost to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson
early 19th century (originally Scots): abbreviation of skipper1.
Information about skips
- The singular form of skips is: skip.
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Hyphenation of skips
skips
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- skips is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
skips synonyms
Meaning skip or dance about in a lively or playful way:
Meaning (of a person) walk or move around with ostentatious, exaggerated movements:
Meaning walk, run, or dance with quick light steps:
Meaning (of a person) move in a quick and lively way:
Meaning walk or run with leaping strides:
Meaning push oneself off a surface and into the air by using the muscles in one's legs and feet:
Meaning jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force:
Meaning move or jump suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards:
Meaning (of a person) move by jumping on one foot:
Meaning move in a particular direction in an energetic, happy, or enthusiastic manner:
Meaning run or jump about playfully:
Meaning skip or leap playfully; frolic:
Meaning (especially of a child or animal) play roughly and energetically:
Meaning jump or dance around excitedly:
Meaning make a quick, short movement up and down:
Meaning (of a horse) perform a series of jumps on the hind legs:
Meaning fail or neglect to do:
Meaning go past or round:
Meaning pay no attention to; ignore:
Meaning refuse to take notice of or acknowledge; disregard intentionally:
Meaning fail to attend, participate in, or watch:
Meaning make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object:
Meaning (especially with reference to an animal's tail) move or cause to move rapidly to and fro:
skips antonyms
Meaning walk slowly and with heavy steps, typically because of exhaustion or harsh conditions:
Meaning comprise or contain as part of a whole:
Meaning be present at (an event, meeting, or function):
Anagrams of skips
Words that rhyme with skips
kips, landskips, lantskips, overskips, townskips
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