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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
skip
skip [skip skips skipped skipping] verb, noun BrE [skɪp] NAmE [skɪp]
verb (-pp-)
MOVE WITH JUMPS
1. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) to move forwards lightly and quickly making a little jump with each step
•She skipped happily along beside me.
•Lambs were skipping about in the fields.
JUMP OVER ROPE
2. intransitive (BrE) (NAmE ˌjump ˈrope, ˌskip ˈrope)transitive to jump over a rope which is held at both ends by yourself or by two other people and is passed again and again over your head and under your feet
•He skips for about 20 minutes a day.
•The girls were skipping in the playground.
•She likes to skip rope as a warm-up.
NOT DO STH
3. transitive ~ sth to not do sth that you usually do or should do
•I often skip breakfast altogether.
• (especially NAmE)She decided to skip class that afternoon.
4. transitive, intransitive to leave out sth that would normally be the next thing that you would do, read, etc
•~ sth You can skip the next chapter if you have covered the topic in class.
•~ over sth I skipped over the last part of the book.
•~ to sth I suggest we skip to the last item on the agenda.
CHANGE QUICKLY
5. intransitive + adv./prep. to move from one place to another or from one subject to another very quickly
•She kept skipping from one topic of conversation to another.
LEAVE SECRETLY
6. transitive ~ sth to leave a place secretly or suddenly
•The bombers skipped the country shortly after the blast.
STONES
7. (BrE also skim)transitive ~ sth (across, over, etc. sth) to make a flat stone jump across the surface of water
•The boys were skipping stones across the pond.
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
v. and n. sense 1 Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin.
Example Bank:
•Scott practically skipped home, he was so happy.
•She skipped off to play with her friends.
•She skipped to the door.
•What I saw made my heart skip a beat.
•She decided to skip the afternoon's class.
Idiom: ↑skip it
Derived: ↑skip off ▪ ↑skip out on somebody
noun
MOVEMENT
1. a skipping movement
•She gave a skip and a jump and was off down the street.
CONTAINER FOR WASTE
2. (BrE) (NAmE Dumpster™)a large open container for putting old bricks, rubbish/garbage, etc. in. The skip is then loaded on a lorry/truck and taken away.
Word Origin:
v. and n. sense 1 Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin.
See also: ↑Dumpster™ ▪ ↑jump rope ▪ ↑skim
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