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verb
- 1. move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce: "she began to skip down the path"
noun
- 1. a light, bouncing step; a skipping movement: "he moved with a strange, dancing skip"
a. To pass over without mentioning; omit: skipped the minor details of the story. b. To miss or omit as one in a series: My heart skipped a beat. 3. To cause to bounce lightly over a surface; skim. 4. To be promoted beyond (the next grade or level). 5. Informal To leave hastily: The fugitive skipped town. 6.
Check pronunciation: skip. Definition of skip verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to avoid reading or talking about something by starting to read or talk about the next thing instead: I usually skip the boring bits. skip. noun [ C ] uk / skɪp / us. skip noun [C] (CONTAINER) a very large, metal container for big pieces of rubbish. skip noun [C] (MOVE) a movement of jumping quickly from one foot to the other.
Definitions of skip. verb. jump lightly. synonyms: hop, hop-skip. see more. verb. cause to skip over a surface. “ Skip a stone across the pond” synonyms: skim, skitter. see more. verb. bound off one point after another. synonyms: bound off. see more. verb. bypass. “He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible”
6 days ago · to jump over a skipping-rope. 3. to cause (a stone, etc) to bounce or skim over a surface or (of a stone) to move in this way. 4. to omit ( intervening matter), as in passing from one part or subject to another. to skip a chapter of a book. 5. (intransitive; foll by through) informal.
verb (used without object),skipped, skip·ping. to move in a light, springy manner by bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot. to pass from one point, thing, subject, etc., to another, disregarding or omitting what intervenes: He skipped through the book quickly. to go away hastily and secretly; flee without notice.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Other games skip1 /skɪp/ verb (skipped, skipping) 1 not do something [ transitive] informal to not do something that you usually do or that you should do SYN miss She skipped lunch in order to go shopping.
