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Definition of skip verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

skip

verb
 
 
/skɪp/
 
/skɪp/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they skip
 
/skɪp/
 
/skɪp/
he / she / it skips
 
/skɪps/
 
/skɪps/
past simple skipped
 
/skɪpt/
 
/skɪpt/
past participle skipped
 
/skɪpt/
 
/skɪpt/
-ing form skipping
 
/ˈskɪpɪŋ/
 
/ˈskɪpɪŋ/
Idioms Phrasal Verbs
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    move with jumps

  1.  
    [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to move forwards lightly and quickly making a little jump with each step
    • She skipped happily along beside me.
    • Lambs were skipping about in the fields.
    Extra Examples
    • Scott practically skipped home, he was so happy.
    • She skipped off to play with her friends.
    • She skipped to the door.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • lightly
    • nimbly
    • happily
    • …
    preposition
    • down
    • up
    • to
    • …
    phrases
    • somebody’s heart skips a beat
    See full entry
    2.

    jump over rope

  2. [intransitive] (British English)
    (North American English jump rope, skip rope [transitive])
    to jump over a rope which is held at both ends by yourself or by two other people and is passed again and again over your head and under your feet
    • He skips for about 20 minutes a day.
    • The girls were skipping in the playground.
    • She likes to skip rope as a warm-up.
    3.

    not do something

  3.  
    [transitive] skip something to not do something that you usually do or should do
    • I often skip breakfast altogether.
    • (especially North American English) She decided to skip class that afternoon.
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  4.  
    [transitive, intransitive] to leave out something that would normally be the next thing that you would do, read, etc.
    • skip something You can skip the next chapter if you have covered the topic in class.
    • (figurative) What I saw made my heart skip a beat.
    • skip over something I skipped over the last part of the book.
    • skip to something I suggest we skip to the last item on the agenda.
    5.

    change quickly

  5. [intransitive] + adv./prep. to move from one place to another or from one subject to another very quickly
    • She kept skipping from one topic of conversation to another.
    6.

    leave secretly

  6. [transitive] skip something (informal) to leave a place secretly or suddenly
    • The bombers skipped the country shortly after the blast.
    7.

    stones

  7. (British English also skim)
     [transitive] skip something (across, over, etc. something) to make a flat stone jump across the surface of water
    • The boys were skipping stones across the pond.
    8. Word Originverb Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin.
Idioms
somebody’s heart misses/skips a beat
  1. used to say that somebody has a sudden feeling of fear, excitement, etc.
    • My heart missed a beat when I saw who it was.
jump/skip bail
  1. to fail to appear at your trial after you have paid money to be allowed to go free until the trial
    • He skipped bail and went on the run for two weeks.
skip it
  1. (informal) used to tell somebody rudely that you do not want to talk about something or repeat what you have said
    • ‘What were you saying?’ ‘Oh, skip it!’
See skip in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee skip in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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