skip

About 3.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To move by hopping on alternate feet.

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

2. verb To leap about lightly.
3. verb To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

   The rock will skip across the pond.

4. verb 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.

5. verb To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

   My heart will skip a beat.

6. verb 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.

7. verb To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.

   to skip the country

8. verb To leap lightly over.

   to skip the rope

Similar words

hop jump skim skitter pass over vamoose decamp cut omission bound off

Often followed by

the to a over this it and ahead that

Word family

skippable skipped skipping skips