0 to move lightly and quickly, making a small jump after each step: --
She watched her little granddaughter skip down the path.
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: --
2 to leave one thing or place, especially quickly, in order to go to another: --
UK She skipped off/out (= left quickly and/or secretly) without saying goodbye.
The police think that the bank robbers must have skipped (= left) the country by now.
UK We're skipping over/across/off (= making a quick journey) to France for the day.
The teacher kept skipping from one subject to another so it was difficult to follow what he was saying.
This part of the book isn't very interesting, so I'm going to skip (over) it.
3 to not do or not have something that you usually do or that you should do; to avoid: --
4 to throw a flat stone horizontally over water so that it touches and rises off the surface several times: --
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 --
We will skip the technical details of the solution and proceed to evaluate condition (28).
With categorical constraints, if the final foot is skipped, then stress appears on the initial foot instead.
Newspapers can afford to offer stories with limited appeal, since uninterested consumers can simply skip them.
Similarly, in 1999, one mutuelle skipped its annual meeting, due to a lack of financial participation and cohesion.
Significantly, regressive nasalisation does not target or skip these vowels.
Many readers may skip this chapter without loss of continuity.
On first reading it is advisable to skip to section 6 which shows the rules in action.
We'll skip this for now, as two of the slub interfaces will be described in detail later in this section.
