Betekenis van skip In het Nederlands

• 0 to move lightly and quickly, making a small jump after each step:

  • She watched her little granddaughter skip down the path.

  • The lambs were skipping about in the field.

• 1 to jump lightly over a rope that is held in both your hands, or by two other people, and turned repeatedly under your legs and over your head as exercise or a game:

  • Sports players often train by skipping.

• 2 to leave one thing or place, especially quickly, in order to go to another:

  • This part of the book isn't very interesting, so I'm going to skip (over) it.

  • The teacher kept skipping from one subject to another so it was difficult to follow what he was saying.

  • UK We're skipping over/across/off (= making a quick journey) to France for the day.

  • The police think that the bank robbers must have skipped (= left) the country by now.

  • UK She skipped off/out (= left quickly and/or secretly) without saying goodbye.

• 3 to not do or not have something that you usually do or that you should do; to avoid:

  • I'm trying to lose weight, so I'm skipping (= not eating) lunch today.

  • US Should parents have to pay if their child skips school?

  • US I skipped class and went to the park instead.

• 4 to throw a flat stone horizontally over water so that it touches and rises off the surface several times:

  • We watched a child skipping stones across the lake.

• 5 a large metal container into which people put unwanted objects or building or garden waste, and which is brought to and taken away from a place by a special truck when people ask for it

• 6 a small, light, dancing or jumping step:

  • She gave a little skip of joy.

• 7 a person who has disappeared, especially someone who owes money:

  • In this case, the bounty hunters claimed that they were pursuing a skip but had accidentally raided the wrong address.

• 8 to move lightly and quickly, esp. with small dancing or jumping steps:

  • He skipped off to school.

• 9 to leave a place quickly:

  • [ T ] Mark took the money and then skipped town.

• 10 to not do or have something; avoid:

  • Martin skipped fifth grade.

  • I skipped lunch today.

• 11 a large metal container used for getting rid of rubbish, old building materials, etc. Skips are removed using a truck:

  • Most of the waste was thrown into a skip.