skip¹ /skip/

1. To progress by hopping on each foot alternately
2. To spring or hop lightly
3. To make jumps over a twirling rope
4. To pass lightly, inattentively, etc (with through, over, etc)
5. To pass discontinuously

1. To overleap
2. To omit
3. To cut, not go to (eg a class)
4. To make (a stone) skim over a surface

1. A skipping movement
2. An act of skipping
3. A belt of inaudibility in wireless transmission
4. A college servant in some older universities

skippˈer noun

1. A person who skips
2. A dancer
3. A young and thoughtless person (Shakespeare)
4. A stout hairy-bodied butterfly of the family Hesperiidae, with wings of the same length as its body, so called because of its short jerky flight
5. The saury

skippˈing adjective

Flighty, giddy

The art or activity of jumping over a twirling rope

skippˈingly adverb

skippˈy adjective (informal)

1. Frolicsome
2. Exuberant

skipˈjack noun

1. Any of a number of species of fish that jump out of, or swim at the surface of, the water, such as the bonitos, the bluefish, the saurel, and either of two species of tuna (the skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis, and the black skipjack, Euthynnus yaito)
2. A type of sailing boat sometimes used for oystering (US)
3. Another name for the click beetle
4. A pert fop (archaic)
5. A jumping toy made of a fowl's wishbone (historical)

skipˈ-kennel noun (obsolete)

A lackey

skippˈing-rope noun

A rope for skipping with

• keep time
• keep to
• keep to oneself
• keep track of
• keep under
• keep under wraps
• keep up
• keep up appearances
• keep up with the Joneses
• keep warm
• keep wicket
• keepy-uppy
• keeshond
• keeshonden
• keeshonds
• keeve
• keeves
• kef
• keffel
• keffels
• keffiyeh
• keffiyehs
• kefir
• kefirs
• kefs