1. Being all around the edges; enclosing
   "the room's skirting board needs painting";
   - encircling

1. Pass around or about; move along the border
   "The boat skirted the coast"
    
2. Form the edge of
   "Trees skirted the lake"
    
3. Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
   "The forest skirts my property";
   - surround, environ, ring, border
    
4. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
   "she skirted the problem";
   - hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, dodge, duck [informal], sidestep, finesse, circumnavigate

See also: peripheral

Type of: adjoin, avoid, border, bound, contact, go by, go past, meet, pass, pass by, touch, travel by

Encyclopedia: Skirting