| skip | | |
| n. (act) | 1. skip | a gait in which steps and hops alternate. |
| ~ gait | a person's manner of walking. |
| n. (act) | 2. omission, skip | a mistake resulting from neglect. |
| ~ failure | an unexpected omission.; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanic's failure to check the brakes" |
| ~ error, fault, mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| v. (cognition) | 3. jump, pass over, skip, skip over | bypass.; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" |
| ~ neglect, leave out, omit, pretermit, overleap, overlook, miss, drop | leave undone or leave out.; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
| v. (stative) | 4. cut, skip | intentionally fail to attend.; "cut class" |
| ~ miss | fail to attend an event or activity.; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week" |
| ~ bunk off, play hooky | play truant from work or school.; "The boy often plays hooky" |
| v. (motion) | 5. hop, hop-skip, skip | jump lightly. |
| ~ bound, jump, leap, spring | move forward by leaps and bounds.; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" |
| v. (motion) | 6. decamp, skip, vamoose | leave suddenly.; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town" |
| ~ go forth, leave, go away | go away from a place.; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" |
| v. (motion) | 7. bound off, skip | bound off one point after another. |
| ~ bounce, rebound, ricochet, take a hop, resile, recoil, spring, bound, reverberate | spring back; spring away from an impact.; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" |
| v. (contact) | 8. skim, skip, skitter | cause to skip over a surface.; "Skip a stone across the pond" |
| ~ throw | propel through the air.; "throw a frisbee" |
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