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To move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce
“In a rush of sudden glee, he began to skip down the sidewalk.”
To rebound off something wildly and seemingly randomly
“A stone with greater initial velocity will be more likely to skip across the surface of the water.”
To omit, bypass or disregard (sections of a whole)
“If there isn't a problem, you can skip the boring details and move on to something more important.”
To run away or make oneself scarce
“So the vacuous Shoreditchers inevitably skip off into the sunset together with that Winkleman terror snapping at their heels.”
To be absent from, or fail to attend, an engagement
“So heavily we had wolfed down the lunch that later, we had to skip our classes in order to get a good sleep that day.”
To look through something quickly or casually
“I lazily skip through the newspaper as the train continues north through Hatfield.”
To run hurriedly or furtively with short quick steps
To move in a smooth, quiet continuous motion
To move quickly and abruptly, especially up and down
To jump, leap or spring over something
To neglect or ignore something, sometimes inadvertently
(archaic) To escape from or leave (a given location or place) in haste
To fail to attend, or to play truant
To cease, or cause to cease, being dependent on (something)
To get ahead of
To move aside or to and fro in a sudden or quick manner
To touch or brush lightly in passing
To make a brief mention of
To fail to fulfill an obligation or payment
To decide not to do something
To lift and set down one's foot or one foot after the other
The captain of a ship or vessel
“Mr. Seabright was the skip of the yacht, an old man-of-war's man and thorough seaman.”
A leader or person of authority
“You could hear the barking issuing of orders from the skip or vice-skip to teammates who are all very competitive.”
An act of jumping into the air
An act of refusal or avoidance
A lively dance, especially with leaping movements
An outdoor rubbish bin on wheels for easier movability
A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied
An act or sound of running hurriedly with short steps
A failure to fulfill a moral or legal obligation
A failure to notice or pay attention to something
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