skipping

English

Verb

skipping

1. present participle and gerund of skip

Noun

skipping (plural skippings)

1. The act by which something is skipped or omitted.
   • 2008, Manfred Schroeder, Number Theory in Science and Communication, page 143:

     Suppose we permit irregular skippings and connect, for example, 1 with 3 with 6 with 2 with 4 – but now we cannot skip any more because the only missing point is the adjacent point 5.

2. The game, activity, or exercise of jump rope.

Derived terms

• French skipping
• stone skipping