Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun skip
2 senses of skip
Sense 1
skip -- (a gait in which steps and hops alternate)
=> gait -- (a person's manner of walking)
Sense 2
omission, skip -- (a mistake resulting from neglect)
=> mistake, error, fault -- (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb skip
6 senses of skip
Sense 1
jump, pass over, skip, skip over -- (bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible")
=> neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap -- (leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten")
Sense 2
cut, skip -- (intentionally fail to attend; "cut class")
=> miss -- (fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week")
Sense 3
hop, skip, hop-skip -- (jump lightly)
=> jump, leap, bound, spring -- (move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?")
Phrasal Verb-> skip over#1
Sense 4
decamp, skip, vamoose -- (leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town")
=> leave, go forth, go away -- (go away from a place; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight")
Sense 5
skip, bound off -- (bound off one point after another)
=> bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet -- (spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide")
Sense 6
skim, skip, skitter -- (cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond")
=> throw -- (propel through the air; "throw a frisbee")
