Skipping Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Skipping? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Derivations, Words starting with Skipping, How to pronounce? Related sentences, Antonyms, Example sentences, Words ending with Skipping, Synonyms and more...

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