Word: Skipping
How to pronounce: skɪp
Verb
Definitions:
1. Move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce.
Example sentences: "She began to skip down the path"
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.
Example sentences: "Training was centred on running and skipping"
3. Omit (part of a book that one is reading, or a stage in a sequence that one is following)
Example sentences: "The video manual allows the viewer to skip sections he's not interested in"
4. Fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss.
Example sentences: "I wanted to skip my English lesson to visit my mother"
5. Throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water.
Example sentences: "They skipped stones across the creek"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A light, bouncing step; a skipping movement.
Example sentences: "He moved with a strange, dancing skip"
2. An act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.
Example sentences: "Recording is prone to skips if you use your computer heavily while it's recording."
3. A person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.
Noun
Definitions:
1. A large transportable open-topped container for building and other refuse.
Example sentences: "I've salvaged a carpet from a skip"
2. A cage or bucket in which men or materials are lowered and raised in mines and quarries.
Example sentences: "The excavator was sitting at the top of the hole, so it could lower a skip down for the mini digger to fill, when it toppled over."
Noun
Definitions:
1. The captain or director of a side at bowls or curling.
Example sentences: "Desert Rats carried on their hundred percent winning streak by beating the Buriram Stompers captained by their new skip Phil."
Verb
Definitions:
1. Act as skip of (a side)
Example sentences: "They lost to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson"
Synonyms:
miss
omit
ignore
miss out
overlook
pass
pass up
pass over
skim
cut
jump
jump over
bounce
step
hop
lope
bound
omission
skipper
decamp
Antonyms:
get
catch
dismiss
capture
Derivations:
skipped
skip
skipping
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Skipping in Other Languages...
Spanish: Saltar
German: Springseil
French: Sauter
Italian: Saltare
Turkish: Atlama
