Synonyms for skip
skɪpskip

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1. skip2

   Synonyms:
   play hookie

2. skip4

   A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep.

   2001: Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she? Barber: She is Australian. Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you. Mary Coustas as her character Effie, TV series Effie: Just Quietly, 2001, episode Nearest and Dearest

   Synonyms:
   dumpster

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1. skipnoun

   a gait in which steps and hops alternate

   Synonyms:
   omission

2. omission, skipverb

   a mistake resulting from neglect

   Synonyms:
   deletion, omission

3. jump, pass over, skip, skip oververb

   bypass

   "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"

   Synonyms:
   spring, cut through, start, move through, jumpstart, decamp, rise, jump out, jump off, climb up, bound off, wipe, hop-skip, cut across, pass through, get over, stick out, cut, pass across, stand out, alternate, derail, jump-start, transit, vamoose, overfly, startle, parachute, traverse, pass over, leap, skim, skip over, jump, bound, chute, cover, cross, leap out, get across, hop, track, skitter

4. cut, skipverb

   intentionally fail to attend

   "cut class"

   Synonyms:
   veer, decamp, bring down, snub, turn off, edit out, cut, bound off, burn, rationalize, hack, trim down, write out, prune, thin, slue, trim back, hop-skip, trim, ignore, swerve, shorten, cut off, edit, thin out, cut down, vamoose, abridge, reduce, rationalise, contract, foreshorten, dilute, curve, switch off, sheer, make out, geld, pass over, slew, tailor, skim, skip over, turn out, jump, disregard, issue, cut back, hop, abbreviate, trend, skitter

5. hop, skip, hop-skipverb

   jump lightly

   Synonyms:
   skip over, hop-skip, hop, bound off, vamoose, skim, cut, skitter, jump, pass over, decamp

6. decamp, skip, vamooseverb

   leave suddenly

   "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"

   Synonyms:
   skip over, bound off, bolt, decamp, vamoose, run off, break camp, cut, make off, abscond, pass over, skitter, hop, skim, go off, absquatulate, hop-skip, jump

7. skip, bound offverb

   bound off one point after another

   Synonyms:
   skip over, hop-skip, hop, bound off, vamoose, skim, cut, skitter, jump, pass over, decamp

8. skim, skip, skitterverb

   cause to skip over a surface

   "Skip a stone across the pond"

   Synonyms:
   plane, skip over, bound off, hop, scurry, scan, decamp, skim over, vamoose, skim off, hop-skip, run down, cut, scuttle, glance over, pass over, skitter, cream, rake, skim, cream off, scamper, jump

Matched Categories

1. • Gait
   • Miss
   • Ricochet
   • Throw

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1. skipverb

   Synonyms:
   leap, jump, bound, spring, hop, CAPER

2. skipverb

   Synonyms:
   disregard, omit, neglect, miss, skip over, pass without notice

3. skipnoun

   Synonyms:
   leap, jump, bound, spring, hop, CAPER

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1. skipnoun

   Synonyms:
   omission, gambol, caper, hop, leap, ricochet

2. skipverb

   Synonyms:
   omit, pass, disregard, caper, gambol, jump, leap, ricochet

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1. List of paraphrases for "skip":

   omit, jump, jumpety-jump, ignore, bypass, hop, salta, spend, fptp, leap, jumping, sauter, pass, skipped, go

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1. Betty Nyoni:

   We normally have no electricity. We skip experiments in electrical physics and switchboard designs. Our test marks flop, and are inferior to students in city schools that have better power supplies.

2. Janice Dean:

   That's not to say that the rest of the winter will be this mild or without snow, for the East, or this cold and wet/snowy over the West, but for now it does look as though Christmas across the East will be much greener and warmer than years past, santa might want to pack a lighter coat and skip the hat and mitts.

3. Raymond Milchovich:

   There was never any rushing on the part of management or the boards of either company to skip steps along the way.

4. Senator Hawley:

   Alejandro Mayorkas has not adequately explained how Alejandro Mayorkas will enforce federal law and secure the southern border given President-elect Biden's promise to roll back major enforcement and security measures, just today, Alejandro Mayorkas declined to say Alejandro Mayorkas would enforce the laws Congress has already passed to secure the border wall system. Given this, I can not consent to skip the standard vetting process and fast-track this nomination when so many questions remain unanswered.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to :' Open America Again,' then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country, this will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.