Definition: 1. A gait in which steps and hops alternate. 2. A mistake resulting from neglect. 3. Bypass. 4. Intentionally fail to attend. 5. Jump lightly. 6. Leave suddenly. 7. Bound off one point after another. 8. Cause to skip over a surface.
Use 'skip' in a sentence:
1. 'I skipped off school today,' — 'So what? What's so special about that?'
2. She wanted him to see her skip.
3. We skip rope, play cards and ball and so on.
4. They saw the man with a little girl skipping along behind him.
5. The boy skipped the third grade because of his great aptitude in mathematics.
6. I love how exercise makes me feel, but tomorrow I might skip the VersaClimber and skip the blueberry bar that is my usual post-exercise reward.
7. Let's skip the formalities and get down to business.
8. Every day we play basketball, play football, and skip rope.
9. I found myself skipping these passages, though no doubt many readers will slaver over them.
10. Let's skip rope.
11. Do you think I could ever skip like that?
12. It is important not to skip meals.
13. We went skipping down the street arm in arm.
14. Her daughter started skipping school.
15. They skip rope and play catch, waiting for the bell.
16. She kept up a continuous chatter, skipping from one subject to the next.
17. The parents want their child to skip to the second grade.
18. She did not skip but walked.
19. The bombers skipped the country shortly after the blast.
20. She reinvented her own life story, skipping over the war years when she had a German lover.
21. Outside, children were skipping and singing a rhyme.
22. Don't skip this part!
23. When you want to skip, you use a skipping rope.
24. If you skip breakfast, your blood sugar level will drop and you will probably feel light-headed.
25. If you skip breakfast, your metabolism slows down.
26. The boxer gave a little skip as he came out of his corner.
27. Can we skip the small talk?
28. She was skipping to keep up with him.
29. Can you skip rope?
30. They can also play skip rope and hide-and-seek.
31. The girls were skipping in the playground.
32. Let's skip over this page and turn to page 55.
33. I said, "Don't you find parts of it rather heavy going?" She answered, "Oh, sure, but I just skip over those parts and go on to the next good part."
34. Let us skip a number of years.
35. We watched the children skip rope.
36. She likes to skip rope as a warm-up.
37. I'd better skip the party and stay at home to revise.
38. The boys were skipping stones across the pond.
39. Do you read it, scan it or skip over it to something shorter?
40. They skip and play catch, waiting for the bell.
41. You might want to skip the exercises in this chapter.
42. You can skip the next chapter if you have covered the topic in class.
43. She skipped happily along beside me.
44. She decided to skip the afternoon's class.
45. I suggest we skip to the last item on the agenda.
46. I often skip breakfast altogether.
47. I'll skip the usual preliminaries and come straight to the point.
48. She gave a skip and a jump and was off down the street.
49. He crossed the hall with a hop, skip and a jump.
50. You may skip through a book, reading only those passages concerned.
