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skippering

skippering is the present participle and gerund of skipper.

Meaning of skipper

Verb (1)

skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered)

  1. (transitive) To captain a ship or a sports team.
    • Tourist subs, which could once be skippered by anyone with a U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license2019, Tony Perrottet, “A Deep Dive Into the Plans to Take Tourists to the ‘Titanic’”, in Smithsonian Magazine

Verb (2)

skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered)

  1. (intransitive) To take shelter in a barn or shed.

See all 16 meanings of skipper

Questions about skippering

What is skippering the present participle and gerund of?
Skippering is the present participle and gerund of skipper.

Words near skippering in the dictionary

  1. skippenite
  2. skipper
  3. skipper-bird
  4. skipper-birds
  5. skippered
  6. skippering
  7. skipperly
  8. skippers
  9. skippership
  10. skippest
  11. skippet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skippering (page history and authors); skipper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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