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skip

/skɪp/

skip along

skip around

skip down

skip out

skip over

skipverb

skipped

Past Simple

skipped

Past Participle

skipping

Gerund

/skɪp/

Translations

скакать

The children love to skip around the playground.

Дети любят скакать по игровой площадке.

перепрыгнуть

She managed to skip over the puddle without getting wet.

Ей удалось перепрыгнуть через лужу, не намочившись.

пропустить

I decided to skip the meeting today.

Я решил пропустить встречу сегодня.

Additional translations

прыгать

проходить

Definitions

To move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce.

The children skipped happily down the street.

To omit or leave out something, such as a step in a process or a part of a sequence.

She decided to skip the introduction and go straight to the main points of her presentation.

To pass over or ignore something, such as a question or a task.

He skipped the difficult questions on the test and answered the ones he knew first.

To fail to attend or participate in something, such as a class or meeting.

He skipped the meeting because he had a prior engagement.

To cause something, especially a flat stone, to move with a series of quick hops across a surface such as water.

He picked up a flat stone and skipped it across the calm lake.

To jump over a rope that is swung so that it passes under one’s feet and over one’s head.

They spent the afternoon skipping rope in the backyard.

Synonyms

leave out

Antonyms

skipnoun

skips

/skɪp/

Translations

пропуск

He noticed a skip in the sequence of numbers.

Он заметил пропуск в последовательности чисел.

контейнер

The construction site had a large skip for waste disposal.

На строительной площадке был большой контейнер для утилизации отходов.

Additional translations

скачок

прыжок

Definitions

A light, bouncing step or movement.

The child had a joyful skip in her step as she headed to the playground.

A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be loaded onto a special lorry.

They hired a skip to dispose of the construction debris from the renovation.

An act of omitting or leaving out something.

There was a skip in the sequence of numbers, which caused confusion.

A captain or leader of a team, especially in curling.

The skip called for a strategic shot to win the curling match.

A single jump over a rope during the exercise of rope skipping, or the exercise itself.

She finished her workout with one hundred skips.

Synonyms

skipadjective

Used attributively before nouns, especially referring to waste containers (British English).

Definitions

Relating to or intended for skips (large waste containers); used before a noun.

The contractor arranged skip hire services for the site.

skipadjective

Used attributively before a noun to denote relation to a waste container (skip) or to the activity of skipping.

Definitions

Relating to a large waste container known as a skip, or to the activity of skipping.

The construction company offers skip hire services.

skipproper noun

Definitions

A male given name or nickname, originally denoting a young man or junior.

"Skip" grew up in Texas and became a renowned guitarist.