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Definition of skip : 1. A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
2. A basket. See Skep.
3. A beehive; a skep.
4. A charge of sirup in the pans.
5. A light leap or bound.
6. A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
7. An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
8. Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; - often followed by over.
9. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
10. To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.
11. To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
12. To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; - commonly implying a sportive spirit.
13. To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.

Synonyms:

thin, scuttle, cross, rake, pass across, make no move, bound off, overfly, deletion, move through, switch off, thin out, omission, sheer, trip, hack, transit, neglect, dart, ashtray, toss, hasten, edit, stand out, skim, truant, plane, refrain, dustbin, let nature take its course, trim, cover, dismiss, get over, fling, flying tackle, it's a long story, slew, cut back, bolt, graze, snub, bedpan, issue, trim back, fly, cut across, bother, vamoose, chute, decamp, glance over, lob, skim off, flip, stick out, bin, turn out, reduce, move, Dumpster, ashcan, trim down, jump-start, free, skipper, commander, tailor, turn off, curve, sit by, trend, wipe, carom, burn, wriggle out of (doing) something, get out of, veer, stay out of, contract, jump off, jumpstart, don't remind me, perish the thought, omit to do something, dap, keep it simple, parachute, absquatulate, pass through, surge, slue, speed, give over, cut down, keep, run off, can't bring yourself to do something, caper, rise, swerve, charge, make off, leap out, skim over, cesspit, prune, cut, rationalise, no reason, skitter, traverse, jump out, outpace, track, rationalize, geld, abbreviate, scamper, flee, start, disregard, direct, shorten, alternate, be quick on your feet, cut through, skip over, abscond, startle, gambol, edit out, running jump, project, ricochet, abridge, race, get across, stand by, throw, cream off, cream, point, climb up, write out, run down, don't ask, give up, gallop, dilute, bring down, break camp, hop-skip, dive, chamber pot, scan, aim, make out, derail, drop, seek, cut off, scurry, foreshorten, pass over, run away, glance, garbage can, go off, strike, flinch from (doing) something, dustpan, duck out of, pitch, ignore, lam, hurl

avert, shirk, decline, shrink, sidestep, abstain, avoid, escape, recoil, shun, elude, dodge, evade, bypass, circumvent, duck

hurdle, bound, pounce, jump, leap, spring, capriole, hop, vault

emigrate, break out, get away

Usage examples:

• " You can't skip a hundred at first, but if you practise you'll mount up. - "The Secret Garden", Frances Hodgson Burnett.
• They're welcome to skip, then. - "The Heath Hover Mystery", Bertram Mitford.
• In school, I'd just begun to make A pretty little ship, But I was slow, and all the rest Stood up to dance and skip. - "The Child Under Eight", E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith.