skipping

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of skip.

   The app keeps skipping corrupted tracks during playback.

   Skipping ahead to the final chapter spoiled the ending for her.

   Note

   One spelling covers every job of the verb, and the final p doubles before -ing. Used intransitively, it describes movement: skipping down a path, or a stone skipping across water. Used with an object, it means leaving something out, such as skipping a stage or a track. Informally, it also means missing an event, as in skipping class or a meeting. After be it forms the progressive; in noun positions it acts as the gerund.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The game, activity, or exercise of jumping over a rope that is repeatedly swung beneath the feet and over the head.

   Skipping became her favorite workout after she bought a weighted rope.

   The boxing coach added ten minutes of skipping to every training session.

3. 3
   noununcountable

   The act of leaving out or passing over something rather than including or doing it.

   Frequent skipping of safety checks led directly to the accident.

   The editor noticed the skipping of an entire chapter in the printed copy.

   Similaromission

   Oppositeinclusion

   Note

   As a true noun, it can be counted. Manfred Schroeder's Number Theory in Science and Communication (2008) speaks of "irregular skippings" when points are joined out of order. Grammar tells it apart from the gerund: the noun takes the and of (the skipping of a step), while the gerund takes a direct object (skipping a step). Only the noun can go plural.

Showing meanings only. Show all 3