skip

To move by hopping on alternate feet.

She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

To leap about lightly.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?

So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.

To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

The rock will skip across the pond.

After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.

To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.

To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

My heart will skip a beat.

He skipped the second question and moved on.

A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.

Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.

A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.

A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.

Beside it was a great engine which worked a continuous steel rope on which the skips were fastened which drew up the débris by successive stages from the bottom of the shaft.

A skip car.

A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.

In a panic he pushed the prostesting Catweazle inside an empty clothes skip and sat down on the lid just as his father and Sam came in.

A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.