skipverb
uk/skɪp/us/skɪp/-pp-skip verb (MOVE)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to move lightly and quickly, making a small jump after each step:
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Moving quickly
- beetle
- belt
- bob
- bowl
- bowl down/along sth
- careen
- career
- gallop
- leg
- make off
- outran
- pelt
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- scrabble
- scramble
- shoot
- stampede
- trot
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skip verb (JUMP)
[ I ] US jump rope, skip rope to jump lightly over a rope that is held in both your hands, or by two other people, and turned repeatedly under your legs and over your head as exercise or a game:
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Miscellaneous games & activities
- air hockey
- bingo
- bungee jumping
- cage diving
- charade
- crossword
- cryptic crossword
- domino
- free running
- freestyle football
- Frisbee
- handball
- hangman
- noughts and crosses
- pinball machine
- quoits
- softball
- tiddlywinks
- treasure hunt
- tug of war
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skip verb (LEAVE)
C1 [ I or T ] to leave one thing or place, especially quickly, in order to go to another:
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Excluding
- acid-free
- alienate
- apart
- bar
- barring
- count
- cut
- discount
- exclude
- excluding
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusively
- freeze sb out
- hold
- otherwise
- out of it idiom
- present
- present company excepted idiom
- send
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skip verb (AVOID)
B2 [ T ] informal to not do or not have something that you usually do or that you should do; to avoid:
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Avoiding action
- avoid
- avoid sth like the plague idiom
- avoidance
- bottle
- bottle out
- fiddle
- flinch
- flinch from sth/doing sth
- fudge
- get out of sth
- get-out clause
- insure
- shy away from sth
- sit on your arse idiom
- skip out on sb/sth
- stand around
- stand by
- steer
- welch
- welsh
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skip verb (THROW)
[ T ] US UK skim to throw a flat stone horizontally over water so that it touches and rises off the surface several times:
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Movement through the air
- airborne
- buzz
- flit
- float
- flown
- fly
- hover
- levitate
- lift
- skim
- soar
- swish
- swishy
- swoop
- track
- waft
- wheel
- wing
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Phrasal verb(s)
skipnoun [ C ]
uk/skɪp/us/skɪp/skip noun [ C ] (CONTAINER)
UK US trademark Dumpster a large metal container into which people put unwanted objects or building or garden waste, and which is brought to and taken away from a place by a special truck when people ask for it
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Containers for waste
- ashcan
- bin
- bin bag
- bottle bank
- Dumpster
- dustbin
- dustbin bag
- garbage bag
- garbage can
- trash bag
- trash can
- trash can liner
- wastebasket
- wastepaper basket
- wheelie bin
skip noun [ C ] (MOVE)
a small, light, dancing or jumping step:
skip noun [ C ] (PERSON)
US informal a person who has disappeared, especially someone who owes money: