skip
skip Lexical Profile
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• verb
To omit, bypass, or pass over a step, item, or stage in a sequence or series.
"If you already know the basics, you can skip the introductory chapter and start on page twenty."
To move along lightly and briskly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce.
"The children skipped down the sidewalk on their way home from school."
To intentionally fail to attend or participate in a scheduled event, class, or meal.
"He decided to skip lunch so he could finish preparing his presentation before the afternoon meeting."
To jump repeatedly over a rope that is swung over the head and under the feet as a game or for physical exercise.
"The boxer skipped for fifteen minutes as part of her daily warm-up routine."
To throw a flat stone or object horizontally across the surface of water so that it bounces several times before sinking.
"They stood on the pebble beach and tried to skip flat stones across the calm lake."
• noun
A light, bounding step or gait in which a person hops alternately on each foot.
"With a joyful skip, the toddler ran across the grass to greet her grandparents."
British A large, open-topped metal container designed to be loaded onto a special truck for transporting building rubble or heavy refuse.
"The builders hired a skip and parked it in the driveway to collect the old plaster and timber."
The captain or director of a team in the sports of curling or lawn bowls.
"The skip stood at the far end of the ice sheet, calling the strategy for the next stone."
• Rhymes for skip
Word Origin & Etymology
The movement sense originates from Middle English skippen, likely borrowed from a Scandinavian source related to Old Norse skopa ('to take a run' or 'to leap'). The British noun sense referring to a large waste container derives from Middle English skeppe, from Old Norse skeppa ('basket' or 'bushel').