skip
/skɪp/ verb B2- To move by hopping on alternate feet. · She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
- To leap about lightly.
- To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. · The rock will skip across the pond.
- 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.
- To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage). · My heart will skip a beat.· He skipped the second question and moved on.
- Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting). · Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
- To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner. · to skip the country· a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill
- To leap lightly over. · to skip the rope
Plural skip · He/she/it skips · Past skipped · Past participle skipped · -ing form skipping
Verb forms
- Base form
- skip
- He/she/it
- skips
- Past
- skipped
- Past participle
- skipped
- -ing form
- skipping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I had no idea how long he might be, but I sat stolidly puffing at my pipe and skipping over the pages of Henri Murger’s “Vie de Bohème.” Ten o’clock passed, and I heard the footsteps of the maid as they pattered off to bed.
Now and then you might see a rabbit skipping across the road if you were quiet--which, with Anne and Diana, happened about once in a blue moon.
Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mowgli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.
They clung around the necks of the big stone idols and shrieked as they skipped along the battlements, while Mowgli, dancing in the summerhouse, put his eye to the screenwork and hooted owl-fashion between his front teeth, to show his derision and contempt.
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