Synonyms for skip
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Jump
jump, omit, pass over, miss, pass, play, trip, overlook, leap, disregard, bound, spring, sport, caper, frisk, ricochet, gambol
4. Play hooky
play hooky informal US, play truant, skive
Noun
jump rope, omission, dumpster, wheelie bin UK AU NZ, detective sergeant, skep, grandboss informal
Definitions
- v. 1
To move by hopping on alternate feet.
She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
- v. 2
To leap about lightly.
- v. 3
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
The rock will skip across the pond.
- n. 1
A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
Related words
- Word family
- skippable skipful skipload skip-raiding
- Phrases
- skip bleach skip day skip rope skip school skip the line skip town
- Is a kind of
- beehive hive
Example sentences
- trip The purpose of our trip is to visit a new factory.
- jump Many would jump at the chance to live in New York.
- omit This detail is unimportant. You can safely omit it.
By length
- 3 letters
- cut1
- 4 letters
- play1, miss1, pass1, trip1, jump1, leap1, skim1, omit2, skep
- 5 letters
- sport1, bound1, caper2, frisk1, skive
- 6 letters
- spring1, decamp2, gambol
- 7 letters
- skitter, vamoose
- 8 letters
- overlook3, dumpster2, omission3, ricochet3
- 9 letters
- disregard3, grandboss
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (omit2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- sautiller
- Italiano
- saltellare
- Deutsch
- hüpfen