skipping

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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.

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