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单词 skip
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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:

She watched her little granddaughter skip down the path.
The lambs were skipping about in the field.

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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:

Sports players often train by skipping.

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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:

This part of the book isn't very interesting, so I'm going to skip (over) it.
The teacher kept skipping from one subject to another so it was difficult to follow what he was saying.
UK We're skipping over/across/off (= making a quick journey) to France for the day.
The police think that the bank robbers must have skipped (= left) the country by now.
UK She skipped off/out (= left quickly and/or secretly) without saying goodbye.

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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:

I'm trying to lose weight, so I'm skipping (= not eating) lunch today.
US Should parents have to pay if their child skips school?
US I skipped class and went to the park instead.

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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:

We watched a child skipping stones across the lake.

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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)

skip out on sb/sth

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:

She gave a little skip of joy.

skip noun [ C ] (PERSON)

US informal a person who has disappeared, especially someone who owes money:

In this case, the bounty hunters claimed that they were pursuing a skip but had accidentally raided the wrong address.
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