verb

• (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
  "She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other."
• (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
  "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?"
• (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
  "The rock will skip across the pond."
• (transitive) 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

• The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
• (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
• (radio) skywave propagation
• (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.

noun

• (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
• (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
  "Beside it was a great engine which worked a continuous steel rope on which the skips were fastened which drew up the débris by successive stages from the bottom of the shaft."
• (steelmaking) A skip car.
• (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.

verb

• (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).