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The synonyms of “Skip” are: hop, hop-skip, jump, pass over, skip over, bound off, decamp, vamoose, skim, skitter, cut, caper, prance, trip, dance, bound, leap, spring, bounce, gambol, frisk, romp, cavort, bob, omit, leave out, miss out, dispense with, do without, bypass, skim over, steer clear of, disregard, ignore, glance at, have a quick look at, flick through, flip through, leaf through, scan, run one's eye over, fail to attend, play truant from, miss, absent oneself from, take french leave from, run off, run away, do a disappearing act, make off, take off, throw, toss, fling, cast, pitch, omission
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “skip” as a noun can have the following definitions:
omission | Something that has been omitted. The omission of recent publications from his bibliography. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “skip” as a verb can have the following definitions:
absent oneself from | Go away or leave. |
bob | Cut hair in the style of a bob. Bernice bobs her hair these days. |
bounce | Hit something so that it bounces. The rubber ball bounced. |
bound | Form the boundary of be contiguous to. Bullets bounded off the veranda. |
bound off | Move forward by leaps and bounds. |
bypass | Go past or round. Bypass the farm and continue to the road. |
caper | Jump about playfully. Children were capering about the room. |
cast | Make a moulded object by casting metal. Cast a bronze sculpture. |
cavort | Engage enthusiastically in sexual or disreputable pursuits. The players cavorted about the pitch. |
cut | Cut down on make a reduction in. Lou s wit could cut like a knife. |
dance | Move in a pattern usually to musical accompaniment do or perform a dance. All the men wanted her to dance with them. |
decamp | Leave a camp. Now he has decamped to Hollywood. |
dispense with | Administer or bestow, as in small portions. |
disregard | Give little or no attention to. The body of evidence is too substantial to disregard. |
do a disappearing act | Behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself. |
do without | Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally. |
fail to attend | Fail to do something; leave something undone. |
flick through | Look through a book or other written material. |
fling | Throw with force or recklessness. Fling the frisbee. |
flip through | Toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air. |
frisk | Play boisterously. He raised his arms to permit the officer to frisk him. |
gambol | Run or jump about playfully. The gamboling lambs in the meadows. |
glance at | Throw a glance at take a brief look at. |
have a quick look at | Have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense. |
hop | (of a bird or other animal) move by jumping with two or all feet at once. I hopped it down the stairs. |
hop-skip | Jump lightly. |
ignore | Be ignorant of or in the dark about. He ignored her outraged question. |
jump | Start a vehicle using jump leads. The trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop. |
leaf through | Produce leaves, of plants. |
leap | Cause to jump or leap. Sales leapt by a third last year. |
leave out | Act or be so as to become in a specified state. |
make off | To compose or represent. |
miss | Leave undone or leave out. I missed the concert. |
miss out | Fail to experience. |
omit | Leave out or exclude (someone or something), either intentionally or forgetfully. He was omitted from the second Test. |
pass over | Pass over across or through. |
pitch | Hit the ball on to the green with a pitch shot. All too often you pitch the ball short. |
play truant from | Consider not very seriously. |
prance | (of a person) walk or move around with ostentatious, exaggerated movements. She pranced around the lounge impersonating her favourite pop stars. |
romp | (especially of a child or animal) play roughly and energetically. Newcastle romped to victory. |
run away | Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point. |
run off | Perform as expected when applied. |
run one's eye over | Come unraveled or undone as if by snagging. |
scan | Cause (a surface, object, or part of the body) to be traversed by a detector or an electromagnetic beam. We scanned the beam over a sector of 120. |
skim | Move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of. She was skimming money from the household kitty. |
skim over | Read superficially. |
skip over | Cause to skip over a surface. |
skitter | Glide easily along a surface. Her mind skittered back to that day at the office. |
spring | Move rapidly or suddenly from a constrained position by or as if by the action of a spring. Madness and creativity could spring from the same source. |
steer clear of | Be a guiding or motivating force or drive. |
take french leave from | Make a film or photograph of something. |
take off | Serve oneself to, or consume regularly. |
throw | Throw a die out onto a flat surface. The man who throws a race is a crook for life. |
toss | Throw or toss with a light motion. We could just toss a coin. |
trip | Make a trip for pleasure. He smoked weed and tripped out on acid. |
vamoose | Leave suddenly. We d better vamoose before we re caught. |
autumn | The period from the autumn equinox to the winter solstice. Europe can expect warmer summers and wetter autumns. |
azalea | Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors. |
backlash | A movement back from an impact. Typical gearbox backlash in these systems is 2. |
bloom | The best time of youth. The children had bloomed in the soft Devonshire air. |
boreal | Relating to or denoting the second climatic stage of the postglacial period in northern Europe between the Preboreal and Atlantic stages about 9 000 to 7 500 years ago marked by a warm dry climate. Northern boreal forest. |
bounce | Hit something so that it bounces. Those who put in a dismal performance will be bounced from the tour. |
bungee | Perform a bungee jump. He bungeed 111 metres from the bridge over the Victoria Falls. |
dance | A set of lively movements resembling a dance. Midges danced over the stream. |
efflorescent | Bursting into flower. |
forth | From a particular thing or place or position forth is obsolete. We rose at dawn and sallied forth. |
frigid | Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain. A frigid woman. |
heating | Utility to warm a building. We had no heating in our bedrooms. |
hop | A hopping movement. He hopped along beside her. |
hurdle | Take part in a hurdle race. The last hurdle before graduation. |
icicle | A hanging, tapering piece of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water. |
jolt | A sudden jarring impact. He felt a jolt when the plane started to climb. |
jump | An act of jumping from a surface by pushing upwards with one s legs and feet. In making the short jump across the gully he lost his balance. |
leap | A thing to be leaped over or from. Peter leapt the last few stairs. |
midwinter | The middle of winter. In midwinter the track became a muddy morass. |
puissance | A competitive test of a horse’s ability to jump large obstacles in showjumping. The puissance of the labor vote. |
rap | A piece of rap or the words themselves. She rapped my fingers with a ruler. |
rebound | The act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot. Rebound hypertension. |
snowfall | Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals. Heavy snowfalls made travel absolutely impossible. |
spring | Spring back spring away from an impact. He will hold office until the spring of next year. |
summer | Spend the summer in a particular place. A long hot summer. |
techno | A style of fast, heavy electronic dance music, typically with few or no vocals. |
vernal | Of, in, or appropriate to spring. The vernal freshness of the land. |
walking | The act of traveling by foot. Walking is a healthy form of exercise. |
winter | The coldest season of the year in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox. He seemed a hundred winters old. |
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