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intransitive verbintransitive verb skips, intransitive verb skipping, intransitive verb skipped

• 1Move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce.

  ‘she began to skip down the path’

  • ‘I yell at the frisky types skipping along the deep gold sand.’
  • ‘He gestured towards a small antelope skipping along parallel to us.’
  • ‘Mr Black bounced in, skipping like a four-year-old being taken to a party.’
  • ‘The woman skipped down the steps until she was beside the two.’
  • ‘Kit practically skipped up the stairs, causing Alan to smile softly to himself.’
  • ‘She blew a very flamboyant kiss his way, and she saw him blush before she practically skipped off.’
  • ‘So I merrily skipped off to biology, thinking that there was absolutely nothing that could go wrong.’
  • ‘"Ok " HiKari said happily skipping out and grabbing her backpack.’
  • ‘Trailed by Sara, he skipped down the stairs and cautiously opened the door.’
  • ‘She skipped down the hall, pulling on her pants at the same time.’
  • ‘She nodded and he nodded to the girl who skipped down the hall.’
  • ‘You know this is bull because you just saw Lisa skipping down the hallway.’
  • ‘When she looked up she saw Molly giggling and skipping down the hallway.’
  • ‘In a rush of sudden glee, he began to skip down the sidewalk.’
  • ‘Kati whistled happily as she skipped down the sidewalk, walking her imaginary dog.’
  • ‘He skipped down the sidewalk and opened the door to his mom's car.’
  • ‘Clive Tyldesley growls randomly as Davids skips past a defender.’
  • ‘She skipped into the kitchen and took one chicken from the spit.’
  • ‘The leaves provide shelter or canopy and after a few days the little creatures find their feet and learn to skip and jump.’
  • ‘Carlie shouted, and she jumped and skipped around the man in girlhood glee.’

  caper, prance, trip, dance, bound, jump, leap, spring, hop, bounce, gambol, frisk, romp, cavort, bob

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  1. 1.1Jump over a rope that 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.

     ‘Except for the rope skipping, all exercises are the same, so read the form tips in the intermediate workout.’

     • ‘Twenty minutes of skipping is hard work, so I like to intersperse skipping with endurance exercises.’
     • ‘Other good bone-building exercises are skipping, aerobics and brisk walking.’
     • ‘Good exercises include running, skipping, aerobics, tennis, weight-training and brisk walking.’
     • ‘They skipped through hurried ropes without missing a beat while entering into little spaces as the ropes took different positions and angles.’
     • ‘Begin each lifting session with a 5 to 10 minute warm-up session by rope skipping.’
     • ‘Other traditional games such as skipping and marbles are also being brought back in other primary schools.’

  2. 1.2North American with object Jump over (a rope) as a game or for exercise.

     ‘the girls had been skipping rope’

     • ‘One girl executes cool maneuvers on her own; but she is also skipping a large rope held by two pairs of pals, one stacked on the other.’
     • ‘She couldn't skip rope because it wasn't ladylike.’
     • ‘The people in this school can't skip a rope even if it's lying on the floor.’
     • ‘I can't skip rope worth a damn, so this is one of the first things they're way better at than I am.’
     • ‘I had to pretend not to know how to skip rope when, in real life, I was quite good at it.’
     • ‘In training for the fight, Liston had skipped rope interminably to Coleman Hawkins's ‘Night Train’.’
     • ‘The world's elite shadow boxed or skipped rope right next to them.’

  3. 1.3with object Jump lightly over.

     ‘the children used to skip the puddles’

     • ‘He skipped past two tackles to race into the area, but was foiled crucially at the last moment by Paddy Martin, the big Kilglass No.4.’
     • ‘Of course they must be fit and able to run and skip a tackle but all that stands for nothing if they don't know what to do with ball.’

  4. 1.4with object 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’

     • ‘she disliked him so much that she skipped over any articles that mentioned him’
     • ‘In fact, he nearly skipped the whole book, but for two or three pages at the end.’
     • ‘Some of the details presented of Jerry's career are skipped over.’
     • ‘I got out my calculator and my math book and skipped over a song on my CD.’
     • ‘Christians may forgive, but this does not mean that whatever punishment is due to an evil doer must be skipped over.’
     • ‘My heart practically skipped a beat and a wide grin spread across my face.’
     • ‘I could have sworn my heart just skipped a beat.’
     • ‘I picked up another one, and my heart almost skipped a beat.’
     • ‘If you're not terribly interested, then skip ahead past the italics.’
     • ‘Then skip ahead to tomorrow, friend, because today is the first day of the 58th Cannes Film Festival.’
     • ‘When you felt your throat dry and a pit in your stomach, you had probably just skipped a meal.’
     • ‘Let's skip straight to the end, shall we?’
     • ‘Of course we skip right to the Outcome, which is kind of ambiguous.’
     • ‘I'll skip right to the next interesting part; when my mom came home.’
     • ‘As with television, 45 % of online consumers would like to skip commercials easily.’
     • ‘I was inhaling chapters and barely holding myself back from skipping to the end.’
     • ‘I'm not giving away a lot of plot details, but if you're still playing the game I'd skip reading the next bit.’
     • ‘Poses may be repeated or skipped, but they should be done in the order given.’
     • ‘Be aware that those who connect through cable or DSL also skip the introduction, but not as often.’
     • ‘On the third ring, he answered and I skipped the greetings and immediately jumped to ‘Where are you?’’
     • ‘Adult Andrew Drury put in a near perfect performance that enabled him to jump a grade by skipping the yellow belt altogether and moving up to orange belt.’

     omit, leave out, miss out, dispense with, do without, pass over, bypass, skim over, steer clear of, disregard, ignore

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  5. 1.5with object 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’
     • ‘Teams of officers are hunting them after they skipped bail and failed to attend court.’
     • ‘After all, some of them had to have skipped class to attend the sit-in.’
     • ‘But with all of the food you guys provide us here, it's really no big deal to skip a meal or two.’
     • ‘The scheme involves pursuing those who skip bail and fail to turn up to a hearing after being released on bail.’
     • ‘He'd been known to skip lectures and just attend tutes when he was a University student.’
     • ‘Even worse, skipping breakfast can lead to some diseases.’
     • ‘Whatever you do, don't skip breakfast - even if your stomach is in knots.’
     • ‘‘Children who skip breakfast can find it difficult to concentrate in class,’ she said.’
     • ‘The next day I discovered that the ripple of excitement was apprehension for many people; namely those who had skipped work to attend.’
     • ‘Many people skip the traditional breakfast and lunch.’
     • ‘So the family members used to eat in rotations, those who had lunch skipped the dinner and vice versa.’
     • ‘Your mother may have been wrong: skipping meals may be good for you.’
     • ‘If she keeps skipping meals, confide in your mom or a school counselor.’
     • ‘I was almost late for the bus, and I had to skip breakfast.’
     • ‘Skipping breakfast was easy: I just asked Wry to cover for me.’
     • ‘She would have never skipped a class or snuck out at night for anyone.’
     • ‘True, I was skipping first hour and standing right in the middle of the west wing hallway, but it was alright.’
     • ‘As Train 20 passed into Alabama we skipped the first call for lunch and snacked in the cafe-lounge.’
     • ‘This close observation of deceit caused her to skip her turn at jumprope.’
     • ‘For any other parents out there reading this, I recommend skipping the above negotiation and waiting until they fall asleep.’

     fail to attend, play truant from, miss, absent oneself from, take French leave from

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  6. 1.6Move quickly and in an unmethodical way from one point or subject to another.

     ‘Marian skipped halfheartedly through the book’

     • ‘But even as he skips over subjects and themes, Kureishi has always returned to his own life for inspiration.’
     • ‘Today's post could be accused of being without focus and skipping from one subject to the next.’
     • ‘Thus, what you get for your hard-earned then is an all too brief account, with highlights that skip too quickly from one sport to the next.’
     • ‘They had skipped from subject to subject, from music, to movies, to classes, to friends and family.’
     • ‘Letters that list complaints or that skip from one subject to another are often rejected or heavily edited.’
     • ‘The verses are a number of independent statements that skip through different subjects.’
     • ‘I was sure that he would act like most other boys and skip away from the deep subjects.’

     glance at, have a quick look at, flick through, flip through, leaf through, scan, run one's eye over

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  7. 1.7 informal with object Depart quickly and secretly from.
     • ‘she skipped her home amid rumors of a romance’
     • ‘It's not even that I secretly skip the horrid hair washing bath night.’
     • ‘Well he did intend to but couldn't think how to so the thought quickly skipped his mind.’
     • ‘Once out, he skipped town, missing his court appearance.’

  8. 1.8 informal Run away; disappear.
     • ‘I'm not giving them a chance to skip off again’
     • ‘But as soon as he decides to skip off to another country to make a movie, everyone decides that they actually liked Woody Allen all along.’
     • ‘So the vacuous Shoreditchers inevitably skip off into the sunset together with that Winkleman terror snapping at their heels.’
     • ‘Are the Germans really going to skip off into the dusk, like the Italians did, and leave the Spanish to sweep up all the riches Europe has to offer?’
     • ‘It seems that it is a bit of a tradition among graduates to skip off overseas and teach English, and why not?’
     • ‘Your parents aren't going to let you skip off and become a peasant.’
     • ‘She had often told others that they would be the ones to skip off and leave her; they would be the ones to ignore her over the boy.’
     • ‘We walk together, slowly, allowing the others to skip off.’

     run off, run away, do a disappearing act, make off, take off

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  9. 1.9skip it informal Abandon an undertaking, conversation, or activity.
     • ‘after several wrong turns in our journey, we almost decided to skip it’
     • ‘And this just kind of wipes out Congress' intent in law and just skips it.’
     • ‘Besides, beating myself up isn't working and it doesn't feel good, so I'm skipping it for now.’
     • ‘I've gotten tickets to SonicFest 2005 tonight but I am contemplating skipping it.’
     • ‘And I haven't skipped it in ages, so I think it'll be ok.’
     • ‘I thought about StairMastering, but since my legs are a little sore from yesterday I skipped it.’
     • ‘So, with a bitter sense of disappointment that still lingers to this day, I skipped it.’
     • ‘If I could, I would have skipped it, but unfortunately biology dictates.’
     • ‘He had been investing all his life, but when he had the best investment opportunity ever, he skipped it.’
     • ‘I wasn't going to skip it after going through the whole semester and doing all the work.’
     • ‘You can skip it and just take my word that it is extreme.’

  10. 1.10with object Throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water.

      ‘Elsa and I greedily drank from the stream while Rowen sat on a bank, and skipped stones across the water.’

      • ‘The entire play is like skipping stones across the surface of a story - there's no substance.’
      • ‘Vincent commented as he watched Pearl trying to skip rocks on the water.’
      • ‘Melanie and Eon were at the beach, just staring at the bay and skipping rocks across its surface.’
      • ‘Wolf skipped a flat stone across the surface, shattering the mirror.’
      • ‘He looked up at the dragon after throwing a few stones, skipping them a few times over the water, and licked his lips.’
      • ‘After that, they just hung out by the beach and talked, skipping rocks across the shallow surface of the water.’
      • ‘And Morgan suddenly became very conscious of the fact he had been skipping stones like a ten-year-old boy.’
      • ‘The boys skipped stones at every watery spot we found.’
      • ‘She stood and cracked her back, replying nonchalantly as she skipped stones.’
      • ‘She was trying to skip stones, and wasn't having much luck.’
      • ‘Daniel laughed, brushed a piece of his blond hair from his eyes, and tried to skip another stone on the cobbles.’
      • ‘As he watches the older kids showing the younger ones how to skip stones, his voice softens.’
      • ‘I skip a rock across the blog ocean - it skips three pretty times across the waves, and comes to rest below the surface of a blog.’
      • ‘But this tendency can be a flat stone skipped over deep water and crucial insights.’
      • ‘It was different from how one threw daggers, or stones, or much of anything else; it vaguely resembled skipping a rock.’
      • ‘Chiha and Kohibi came to visit her often; she played with them on off times, and taught Kohibi how to skip rocks.’
      • ‘She and her friends had been having a contest to see who could make a stone skip the most when Miree had found it.’
      • ‘Lars taught me to skip rocks, and soon I was better than he was, much to his chagrin.’
      • ‘As we smoked and talked, Mike and I would skip flat rocks across the stream below the bridge.’

noun

• 1A light, bouncing step; a skipping movement.

  ‘he moved with a strange, dancing skip’

  • ‘It was as if everyone in the world had a skip to their step today, and it was contagious, as good moods often are.’
  • ‘Spend time doing things that put a skip in your step, a grin on your face, some glory in your life story.’
  • ‘Fall is the season when you come alive, and right now the equinox is putting a frisky skip in your step.’
  • ‘My chest is puffed out regularly and there is a skip in my step.’
  • ‘I pulled round and left with what can only be described as a skip in my step.’
  • ‘No more than eight years old he walks briskly with a slight skip in his step past the monument towards the houses beyond.’
  • ‘She smiled at this action and walked away with a slight skip in her step and I stifled a laugh.’
  • ‘With a slight skip in her step she too leaves the room.’
  • ‘Shannon noticed a slight skip in his step and laughed to herself.’
  • ‘The only mode of transportation she seemed to have was a bouncing skip.’
  • ‘Put a skip in your step by skipping out for a lunch time walk.’
  • ‘He turned with a skip and shambled away, whistling.’
  • ‘Still dressed in that red jumpsuit, slim even for her young age, she ran with a skip like a child prancing through a field of daisies.’
  • ‘Ed had a little skip in his pace, which only added to the glee in him.’
  • ‘She uttered thanks again and walked swiftly from the stables, a skip in her already jaunty step.’
  • ‘She rises and descends with natural ease and skips through a complicated chorus full of rich imagery.’
  • ‘One Twinkie found a home in my chest pocket, while the other I held out in front of me as I followed out the door, a spry little skip in my step.’
  • ‘She walked to school that morning with a slight skip in her step.’
  • ‘Shannon noticed a slight skip in his step and laughed to herself.’
  • ‘With a slight skip in her step she too leaves the room.’
  1. 1.1Computing An act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.

     ‘Recording is prone to skips if you use your computer heavily while it's recording.’

     • ‘You might expect that a PCI-based tuner would deliver smoother video and recordings with fewer skips than an external device.’
     • ‘You will, however, notice some animation jumps and skips based on certain commands.’
     • ‘There are no skips in the other two instruments.’

  2. 1.2North American informal A person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.

Origin

Middle English probably of Scandinavian origin.

noun

• A dumpster.

  ‘Stop using our hedgerows like a very large skip.’

  • ‘The skips have recently been re-arranged in a more logical order so cardboard is last, and there is now an extra compost skip near the other recycling skips.’
  • ‘Large items can be placed in this skip for a fee of E3 per item.’
  • ‘It would take more than one skip to take all the rubbish from our garden.’
  • ‘The paper skip and plastic skip are full for weeks on end.’
  • ‘No individual dustbin for them but a collective covered skip.’

noun

• The captain or director of a team in lawn bowling or curling.

  ‘Desert Rats carried on their hundred percent winning streak by beating the Buriram Stompers captained by their new skip Phil.’

  • ‘Teams of four players termed rinks are led by the skip, as in bowls.’
  • ‘How often do you see a side holding four or five shots when the opposing skip, with his/her last bowl, draws the shot?’
  • ‘Returning to the women's side, skip Marika Bakewell was voted by her curling peers as the all-star skip for the tournament.’
  • ‘If you are having trouble handling one side, ask the skip if you can play the other side to see if it gives you better results.’
  • ‘Still, the Dodger skip delighted in watching the writer's gaffes.’
  • ‘Who, outside devotees of the sport, could name the skip of the women's curling team before this year's Winter Olympics?’
  • ‘As the players bend into their stances and play, the skips employ a variety of hand signals, looking not unlike third-base coaches at times.’
  • ‘The opposing skip then played his last shot with weight to try to move the York wood but missed, meaning York took the game 75-74.’
  • ‘Not once did the seconds step on to the mat until they had received instructions from their skip as to what she wanted them to do.’
  • ‘An inability to act on instructions from the skip can be damaging to team morale, and can be the foundation of doubt and dissension.’
  • ‘‘Whitea’ with skip Volkmar Petzold won the first race that day in the fun cruising class.’

transitive verbtransitive verb skips, transitive verb skipping, transitive verb skipped

• Act as skip of (a side)

  ‘they lost to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson’

  • ‘Ball's victory in the fours final earlier in the year was also against a side skipped by Lavelle.’
  • ‘In a section four game yesterday afternoon former Springbok Judy Armist's St Andrew's team battled it out with the Strand team skipped by L Logan.’
  • ‘Today the Scots play the Swiss Olympic team skipped by Luzia Erbrother.’
  • ‘Smith, a previous QSG captain, was this season handed the task of skipping the Gulf International side.’
  • ‘Kevin and Kitty Phillips played well against strong opposition skipped by SA representative Rudi Jacobs.’
  • ‘The tournament was first played here in 1984 and fittingly the inaugural winner was Border's Hamiltons, skipped by Alma Watt.’

Origin

Early 19th century (originally Scots): abbreviation of skipper.