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skipping

skipping is the present participle and gerund of skip.

Noun

skipping (plural skippings)

  1. The act by which something is skipped or omitted.
    • Suppose we permit irregular skippings and connect, for example, 1 with 3 with 6 with 2 with 4 – but now we cannot skip any more because the only missing point is the adjacent point 5.2008, Manfred Schroeder, Number Theory in Science and Communication, page 143
  2. The game, activity, or exercise of jump rope.

Meaning of skip

Verb

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

  1. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
    • She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
  2. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
    • The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC
  3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
    • The rock will skip across the pond.
  4. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
    • I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
  5. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
    • My heart will skip a beat.
  6. (informal, transitive) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
    • Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
    Synonyms:
    play hooky

See all 35 meanings of skip

Forms of skipping

pluralskippings

Words formed from skipping

Phrases with skipping

Questions about skipping

What does skipping mean?
Skipping means the act by which something is skipped or omitted.
What is skipping the present participle and gerund of?
Skipping is the present participle and gerund of skip.
What part of speech is skipping?
Skipping is a noun.
What is the plural of skipping?
The plural of skipping is skippings.

Words near skipping in the dictionary

  1. skippeth
  2. skippets
  3. skippier
  4. skippiest
  5. skippin'
  6. skipping
  7. skipping a beat
  8. skipping out
  9. skipping rope
  10. skipping ropes
  11. skipping school

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