Crossword clues for skipping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skip \Skip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Skipping.] [OE. skippen, of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. skopa run, skoppa to spin like a top, OSw. & dial. Sw. skimmpa to run, skimpa, skompa, to hop, skip; or Ir. sgiob to snatch, Gael. sgiab to start or move suddenly, to snatch, W. ysgipio to snatch.]
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To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
--Pope.So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
--Hawthorne. Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is skipped or omitted. vb. (present participle of skip English)
WordNet
v. bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" [syn: jump, pass over, skip over]
intentionally fail to attend; "cut class" [syn: cut]
leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town" [syn: decamp, vamoose]
bound off one point after another [syn: bound off]
cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" [syn: skim, skitter]
See skip
Wikipedia
Skipping can refer to several things:
- The hippity-hoppity gait that comes naturally to children
- A game or form of exercise using a skipping rope
- Stone skipping, throwing a stone so that it bounces off the surface of water
- String skipping, a guitar-playing technique
- Snowmobile skipping, a sport where drivers hydroplane snowmobiles on lakes or rivers
- British slang for garbage picking
- "Skipping", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
Usage examples of "skipping".
You can skip very close to a gravity well, which is why we enter new universes near our destinations, but skipping out is much easier the farther away you are from one, which is why we always travel a bit before we skip.
I am skipping on my back toward an outcropping of rock, my chair lazily spinning me in counterclockwise direction as my chair back bounces, bounces, bounces toward the stone.
Alan, God rest his soul, but the entire theoretical model on which we understand skipping has to be wrong somehow.
Jaina flashed on a garbled memory of struggling with those controls to keep the nose up, of skimming a crater rim and coming down like the rock the shuttle was, of skipping across the basin floor and rolling sideways and decelerating sharply as the nose caught .
When a workday and commute grab ten or eleven hours a day, how does one find time for family without skipping sleep?
While some children will suddenly announce one day that they no longer need a nap, most children gradually begin a process of napping one day and skipping the next.
Instead of skipping it, make sure your child gets her nap, just move it fifteen minutes back, as you have done with her meals.
I hear, skipping stones across the ponds - bonking, now and then, a rare and outraged Aquatic Bird.
While the rest of their neighbors on Hemlock Street are decorating and busily preparing for Santa, the Kranks are skipping Christmas and preparing for a cruise, according to unnamed sources.
He walked briskly to his car, quite proud that he was skipping the madness up on the sixth floor.
He went skipping and scrambling among the boughs as if a hundred jays were after him.
And when they saw him pick himself up and go skipping from stone to stone until he reached the shore and scampered away, they looked very foolish indeed.
The old folks sat round the walls holding glasses of mead in their hands and feeling thankful that they were past all such capers, hoppings and skippings, while those children who had been sick sat with them, and soon went to sleep, the small heads leaning against their shoulders.