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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" Similar Opposite
- 2. jump over a rope which 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: British "training was centred on running and skipping"
noun
- 1. a light, bouncing step; a skipping movement: "he moved with a strange, dancing skip"
- 2. an act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.
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SKIP definition: 1. to move lightly and quickly, making a small jump after each step: 2. to jump lightly over a…. Learn 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.
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.
a. To move by hopping on one foot and then the other. b. To leap lightly about. 2. To bounce over or be deflected from a surface; skim or ricochet: threw the stone so it skipped over the water. 3. To pass from point to point, omitting or disregarding what intervenes: skipped through the list hurriedly; skipping over the dull passages in the novel.
If you skip or skip over a part of something you are reading or a story you are telling, you miss it out or pass over it quickly and move on to something else.
Definition of skip verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
You might arrive late to the movies and skip the trailers at the beginning, or skip the bread basket at a restaurant so you have room for dessert later. 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.
Definition of skip verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
skip meaning, definition, what is skip: to not do something that you usually do ...: Learn more.
SKIP definition: 1. to move forward, jumping quickly from one foot to the other: 2. to jump over a rope while you…. Learn more.
