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Skipping

To move by hopping on alternate feet.

📖 Definitions of "Skipping"

verb

1
To move by hopping on alternate feet.
"She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other."
2
To leap about lightly.
3
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
"The rock will skip across the pond."
4
To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
"I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond."

noun

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Word	Definition
leapfroggingnoun	(economics, business) The idea that small and incremental innovations lead the dominant firm to stay ahead, whereas radical innovations will permit new firms to "leapfrog" the dominant one.
jumpingnoun	The act of performing a jump.
generationnoun	A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
omittingnoun	An act of omission.
ignoringnoun	The act by which something is ignored.
dancingnoun	The activity of taking part in a dance.
breaksverb	(ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
bypassingverb	To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
hopsnoun	The flowers of the hop plant; the vegetable matter from them supplied as pellets, shreds, or powder.
jumpsnoun	(fashion) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
leapsverb	(intransitive) To jump.
hoppingnoun	The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
leapingnoun	a light springing movement upwards or forwards
boundingnoun	The act of one who bounds or leaps.
prancingnoun	The act of one who prances.
gambolingnoun	Alternative form of gambolling. [The act of one who gambols.]
caperingnoun	The motion of one who capers.
frolickingnoun	The act of one who frolics.
cavortingnoun	The action of the verb to cavort
bouncingnoun	The act of something that bounces.