Skip

Quick meaning: Skip is a verb meaning (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

Meaning

(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
2. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
3. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
4. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
5. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
6. (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
7. To leap lightly over.

Example Sentences

My heart will skip a beat.

The rock will skip across the pond.

She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.

Word Forms

• skips
• skipping
• skipped
• skippest
• skippedst
• skippeth
• skippy

Synonyms for skip

Depending on context, synonyms include dumpster, grandboss, skitter, skim, jump, cut.

Antonyms for skip

Common opposites include stack.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jump, skim, skitter, vamoose, decamp, cut.

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