skip
//skɪp//
Forms
- present (v1)
- skip
- past (v2)
- skipped
- past participle (v3)
- skipped
- present participle
- skipping
- 3rd person singular
- skips
- Plural
- skips
Definitions
1.To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
2.To leap about lightly.
- So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
3.To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- The rock will skip across the pond.
4.To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
1.The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
2.A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
3.A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.
4.A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3737
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).