skip
verb /skɪp/
/skɪp/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| 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/ |
- [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
- …
- down
- up
- to
- …
- somebody’s heart skips a beat
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [transitive] skip something (informal) to leave a place secretly or suddenly
- The bombers skipped the country shortly after the blast.
- (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.
move with jumps
jump over rope
not do something
change quickly
leave secretly
stones
Word Originverb Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin.
Idioms
somebody’s heart misses/skips a beat
- 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
- 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
- (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!’