1. Bypass
   "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible";
   - jump, pass over, skip over
    
2. Jump lightly
   "The children hop-skipped across the playground";
   - hop, hop-skip
    
3. Bound off one point after another
   "The rabbit skipped into the forest";
   - bound off
    
4. Cause to move quickly over a surface with small jumps
   "Skip a stone across the pond";
   - skim, skitter
    
5. Intentionally fail to attend
   "skip class";
   - cut
    
6. Leave suddenly
   "skip town";
   - decamp, vamoose [informal]

1. A gait in which steps and hops alternate
   "The children's happy skip down the pavement was a sign of their excitement"
    
2. A mistake resulting from neglect
   "The skip in the maintenance routine caused the machine to fail";
   - omission
    
3. [Brit] A container designed to receive and transport and dump waste
   "They hired a skip to clear the garden waste";
   - Dumpster [N. Amer]

Derived forms: skipping, skips, skipped

See also: get on

Type of: bounce, bound, container, drop, error, fault, gait, go away, go forth, jump, leap, leave, leave out, miss, mistake, neglect, off [informal], omit, overleap [archaic], overlook, pretermit [archaic], rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, throw, wing

Encyclopedia: Skip