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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"
1. (when: intr, often foll by over, along, into, etc) to spring or move lightly, esp to move by hopping from one foot to the other. 2. (Games, other than specified) ( intr) 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.
to jump lightly over a rope that is held in both your hands, or by two other people, and turned repeatedly under your legs and over your head: Skip rope rapidly for five minutes. We used to skip rope and play jacks after school. Skipping rope is good cardiovascular exercise.
to pass over without reading, noting, acting, etc.: He skipped the bad parts. to miss or omit (one of a repeated series of rhythmic actions): My heart skipped a beat. to be absent from; avoid attendance at: to skip a school class. to send (a missile) ricocheting along a surface.
If you skip from one subject or activity to another, you move quickly from one to the other although there is no obvious connection between them. She kept up a continuous chatter, skipping from one subject to the next.
Definition of skip verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The meaning of SKIP is to move or proceed with leaps and bounds or with a skip. How to use skip in a sentence.
The earliest meaning of skip, from the 1300's, is "to spring lightly," from the Old Norse root word skopa. 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”.
skip meaning, definition, what is skip: to not do something that you usually do ...: Learn more.
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Definition of skip noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
