Entry Word: skip

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to move with a light bouncing step <children skipping across the playground>

Synonyms bound, hop, lope, trip

Related Words caper, frisk, gambol, romp; skim, skitter; jump, leap, vault

Near Antonyms lumber, plod, trudge

2 to fail to attend <skipping class on a nice spring day> — see cut 2
3 to strike and fly off at an angle <the stone went skipping across the water> — see glance 1