SKIP Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

ˈskip

Definition of skip

as in to hop

to move with a light springing step children skipping along the woodland path

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as in to miss

to fail to attend the day was so nice that we decided to skip class and go to the beach

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as in to bounce

to strike and fly off at an angle the soap slipped out of my hand and went skipping across the bathroom floor

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skip

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noun

as in commander

a person in overall command of a ship the skip's barking orders again

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Recent Examples of skip

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Other candidates skip celebrity impersonations and opt instead for catchy aliases. — Mauricio Savarese, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026 Both candidates held speaking spots at Republicans' midterm convention earlier this month, as other Republicans in tight races skipped the event. — Halle Troadec, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026

Noun

Mason was funny, goofy and crazy in all the right ways; he will be remembered for singing and dancing around the house with a wide smile on his face and a skip in his step. — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 Podnews calculated that skipping a typical ad break previously required nine presses of the 15-second skip button, plus a correction tap after overshooting. — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for skip

Recent Examples of Synonyms for skip

Verb

Consisting of eight sessions of several 15-minute talks held across two time slots, these were designed so that audience members could hop around at will.

— Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026
Everyone else just had to hop on the train or a domestic flight, but Alex is in Australia … trying to survive in this economy.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of hop

Verb

And three, sometimes four, of those many waking hours are spent in the car — bouncing from home to school to her second or third job and home again — with music at full blast to drown out the babble of anxiety, most of it financial.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
The song runs along a bouncing track with airy melodies swirling throughout each verse.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of bounce

Noun

Last month, a court in The Hague, Netherlands, found former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three other former Kosovo Liberation Army commanders guilty of war crimes committed during the 1998-99 war for independence from Serbia.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
Its ability to perform different missions allows commanders to employ the weapon against changing threats.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of commander

Verb

Kalra’s bill would have added, in essence, an official recognition to state law that California’s water rights system ignores how land was taken from Native Americans during colonization.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Most of them appear gradually, which is exactly why they get ignored.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of ignore

Noun

The village's pedestrian-only strip weaves through small shops, restaurants, and boutiques, and there's a Naval Museum housed in a 19th-century captain’s mansion that highlights the island’s maritime history—and is worth a visit.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Alex Ovechkin said Monday that his 22nd season in the NHL will be his last, beginning the farewell tour for the longtime Washington Capitals captain who holds the league's career goal-scoring record.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of captain

Noun

Judge, along with Michael Schuck, the club’s director of sports medicine and rehabilitation, conferred with the skipper.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026
Under the direction of second-year skipper Will Venable and with a letter of support from Pope Leo XIV, the White Sox advanced to face AL Central champion Cleveland in the AL Division Series beginning Saturday in Cleveland.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of skipper

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skip (out)

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