1. a short comedy sketch or piece of humorous writing, especially a parody: "a skit on daytime magazine programs"
▪ a short informal performance intended to educate or inform:"theater department students will create skits about bullying and go to each elementary school to perform them"
Word Originearly 18th century (in the sense ‘satirical comment or attack’): related to the rare verb skit ‘move lightly and rapidly’, perhaps from Old Norse (compare with skjóta ‘shoot’).
