Dictionary Definition
skip
Noun
1 a gait in which steps and hops alternate
2 a mistake resulting from neglect [syn: omission]
Verb
1 bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so
the sentence was incomprehensible" [syn: jump, pass over,
skip
over]
2 intentionally fail to attend; "cut class" [syn:
cut]
5 bound off one point after another [syn:
bound
off]
6 cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone
across the pond" [syn: skim, skitter] [also: skipping, skipped]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /skɪp/, /skIp/
- Rhymes: -ɪp
Verb
Translations
To move by hopping on alternate feet
To leap about lightly
- Finnish: hyppiä, hypähdellä
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface
- Finnish: kimmota
To omit or disregard intermediate items or
stages
Noun
- A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
- An open-topped rubbish bin, ranging in size from perhaps 1.5x1.5 metres up to 6x3 metres, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep.
- An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent. Used by people of
southern European descent (those who the "skips" in turn call
"wogs"), not used by Anglo
Australians themselves. Usually taken to be from Skippy
the Bush Kangaroo and not of itself insulting (though might be
used as such).
- 2001: Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she? Barber: She is Australian. Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you. — Mary Coustas as her character Effie, TV series Effie: Just Quietly, 2001, episode Nearest and Dearest
- The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks
- Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship.
Synonyms
- (open-topped rubbish bin): dumpster
Translations
A leaping, jumping or skipping movement
- Finnish: hyppely
An open-topped rubbish bin
An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic
descent
(curling)The player who calls the shots and
traditionally throws the last two rocks
Derived terms
Faroese
Pronunciation
[ʃiːp]Noun
skipDeclension
Icelandic
Noun
skipSynonyms
Derived terms
Norwegian
Extensive Definition
The word skip has several meanings:
- Skip (container), a type of large open-topped container
- Skip (music), a type of interval in music
- Skip (in audio playback), a type of malfunction of a phonograph or gramophone or CD player
- Skip (radio), a radio signal which is reflected or refracted in the atmosphere or ionosphere
- Skip (curling), a position in the sport of curling
- Skip (gait), a style of gait movement involving a combination of walking and jumping
- Jump rope (skipping rope), where one or more participants jump over a spinning rope so that it passes under their feet and over their heads
- Skip-stop, a public transit service pattern
The acronym SKIP may stand for:
The word skip also appears in several names and
titles:
- Skippy Australian
- Skips (snack)
- Skip (Buffyverse) is a demon from the TV show Angel
- Chris Candido, also known as Skip
- Skip Bifferty, an English band
- skip Ltd., a video game developer
- Skip Battin, (1934 -2003), musician, former bass player and songwriter with The Byrds
skip in German: Skip
skip in Japanese: スキップ
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Highland fling, abandon, abscond, absquatulate, amble, and jump, antic, avoid, avoidance, bail out, barge, beam, beat a retreat, blank, bob, bolt, bounce, bound, bowl along, break away,
break jail, break loose, broad jump, buck, buckjump, bundle, caper, capriole, caracole, carol, carom, carry on, cavort, chasm, chirp, chirrup, clap hands, clear, clear out, clog, clop, clump, curvet, cut, cut a dido, cut and run, cut
capers, cut loose, cut up, dance, dap, decamp, delight, demivolt, depart, desert, disport, disregard, dog it, drag, elope, escape, escape prison, evade, exult, flee, flounce, fly, fly the coop, flying jump, fool
around, foot, footfall, footslog, footstep, fox-trot, frisk, frolic, fugitate, galliard, gambado, gambol, gap, gelandesprung, get away,
get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, glory, glow, go AWOL, go awol, goldbrick, goof off, grand
jete, graze, halt, handspring, high jump,
hippety-hop, hitch,
hobble, hoof, hoofbeat, hop, horse around, hurdle, ignore, jete, jig, jog, jolt, joy, jubilate, jump, jump about, jump bail, jump
over, jump ship, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop, jump-off, lacuna, lam, laugh, lavolta, leap, leap over, leapfrog, leave, leave loose ends, leave
out, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, levant, lilt, limp, long jump, lope, lumber, lunge, lurch, make a getaway, make off,
malinger, mince, miss, morris, negotiate, omission, omit, overjump, overleap, overlook, oversight, overskip, pace, paddle, pass by, pass over, pass
up, peg, piaffe, piaffer, play, play hooky, play truant,
plod, pole vault, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon,
powder, prance, preterition, pretermit, procrastinate, rack, radiate cheer, ramp, rejoice, revel, ricochet, roll, rollick, romp, run, run away, run away from, run
away with, run for it, run off, running broad jump, running high
jump, sashay, saunter, saut de basque,
scamper, scoot, screw, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shake, shamble, shimmy, shirk, show the heels, shuffle, sidle, sing, single-foot, skedaddle, ski jump, skim, skip for joy, skip out,
skitter, slack, slink, slip the cable, slip the
collar, slither,
slog, slouch, smile, sparkle, split, sport, spring, stagger, stalk, stamp, start, start aside, start up,
steeplechase, steer
clear of, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swing, take French leave, take a
powder, take flight, take off, take to flight, take wing,
tap-dance, tittup,
toddle, totter, tour jete, traipse, tread, trifle, trip, trudge, turn tail, updive, upleap, upspring, vault, waddle, waltz, wamble, whistle, wiggle, wobble