## Meanings
1. to leave out or pass over something instead of dealing with it
2. to not attend something, such as a class or meeting
3. to move forward lightly, hopping from one foot to the other
4. to bounce or cause something to bounce across a surface

## Examples
- I skipped a row in the text and the sentence stopped making sense.
- I really shouldn't skip the meeting, but I'm tempted to.
- The children skipped happily down the path.
- He likes to skip stones across the pond.

## Derived Forms
- frameskip
- glip
- hit-skip
- no-skip
- nonskipping
- outskip
- overskip
- skip-care
- skip-gram
- skip-level
- skip-raiding
- skip-stop

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: skep
- Root: sceppe
- Root: skeppa
- Root: scheppe

## Etymology
From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa, skjappa (“basket, bushel, measure”), perhaps from Middle Low German scheppe (“a unit of weight”), perhaps related to Middle Low German schēpel (“buschel, measurement for grain”), German Scheffel (“bushel”). These could all ultimately be related to *skap (“shape”).

## AI Etymology
Skip is from Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa, skjappa (“basket, bushel, measure”), perhaps from Middle Low German scheppe (“a unit of weight”), perhaps related to Middle Low German schēpel (“buschel, measurement for grain”), German Scheffel (“bushel”). These could all ultimately be related to *skap (“shape”). Important forms in the word's history include Middle English skep, Old English sceppe, Old Norse skeppa, gml scheppe. In current use it includes senses such as to leave out or pass over something instead of dealing with it and to not attend something, such as a class or meeting.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction
- Verbs of Movement

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