# skip

> English word · Verb · IPA /skɪp/ · frequency rank #5,082

## Definitions
1. To move by hopping on alternate feet.
2. To leap about lightly.
3. To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
4. To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
5. To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
6. Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
7. To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
8. To leap lightly over.
9. To jump rope.
10. To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
11. To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
12. To have insufficient ink transfer.

## Etymology
From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

## Easily confused with
- **SP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-sp)
- **sky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-sky)
- **SNP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-snp)
- **sup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-sup)
- **STI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-sti)
- **Sui** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-sui)
- **SSI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-ssi)
- **sop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-sop)
- **soi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-soi)
- **STP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-stp)
- **SVP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-svp)
- **SMP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-smp)
- **stop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-stop)
- **suit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-suit)
- **soil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-soil)
- **spin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-spin)
- **slip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-slip)
- **snap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-snap)
- **swim** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-swim)
- **soap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skip-vs-soap)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ksip`, `sikp`, `skipp`, `skkip`, `skpi`, `sskip`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/skip