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. Amy Throckmorton:

   It was a crazy and wonderful day! I’m so excited to know her and especially freaked out (in the best way) to hear our voices together. Skip a minute or two into the video to hear us sing together. Genetics, man! i wasn’t squeamish about the medical procedures (lots of self-administered shots, etc.) and I liked the idea of helping a couple who couldn’t have children of their own start a family.

2. 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.

3. Sana O. Dabbas:

   You're never really alive until you skip a heart-beat, and you don't really skip a heart-beat until you see someone whose smile lights up the whole room.

4. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   Only once in a while you become aware of your intrinsic nature, with sudden bursts of empty spaces, without any effort on your part, you come home, rejoice every breath so deep and so soothing, you relax, unfocused, you skip into timelessness. This is the greatest mystery, the greatest gift of existence, without any identification to your senses, no clutches of your old patterns of mind. Few Glimpses of Heaven on the earth! I have experienced, have you?

5. Jonas Oransky:

   It doesn’t matter necessarily if people are selling at scale, it’s not that all sellers are dangerous or devious, but buyers who know that they can skip the background check can look for an unlicensed seller.