Frolic vs. Skip

Frolicadjective

Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.

Skipverb

(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

‘She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.’;

Frolicadjective

Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.

Skipverb

(intransitive) To leap about lightly.

Frolicverb

(intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.

Skipverb

(intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

‘The rock will skip across the pond.’;

Frolicverb

To cause to be merry.

Skipverb

(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.’;

Frolicnoun

Gaiety; merriment.

Skipverb

(transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

‘My heart will skip a beat.’; ‘I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.’;

Frolicnoun

A playful antic.

Skipverb

To place an item in a skip.

Frolicadjective

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

‘The frolic wind that breathes the spring.’; ‘The gay, the frolic, and the loud.’;

Skipverb

Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

‘Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.’;

Frolicnoun

A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.

‘He would be at his frolic once again.’;

Skipverb

To leave

‘to skip the country’;

Frolicnoun

A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.

Skipverb

To leap lightly over.

‘to skip the rope’;

Frolicverb

To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

‘Hither, come hither, and frolic and play.’;

Skipverb

To jump rope.

‘The girls were skipping in the playground.’;

Frolicnoun

gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement;

‘it was all done in play’; ‘their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly’;

Skipnoun

A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

Frolicverb

play boisterously;

‘The children frolicked in the garden’; ‘the gamboling lambs in the meadows’; ‘The toddlers romped in the playroom’;

Skipnoun

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

Frolicverb

play or move about in a cheerful and lively way

‘Edward frolicked on the sand’;

Skipnoun

(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

Frolicverb

play about with someone in a flirtatious or sexual way

‘he denied allegations that he frolicked with a secretary’;

Skipnoun

A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.

Frolicnoun

a playful and lively movement or activity

‘his injuries were inflicted by the frolics of a young filly’;

Skipnoun

(radio) skywave propagation

Frolicnoun

flirtatious or sexual activity or actions

‘her poolside frolics’;

Skipnoun

A basket. See Skep.

Frolicadjective

cheerful, merry, or playful

‘a thousand forms of frolic life’;

Skipnoun

A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.

Skipnoun

An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.

Skipnoun

A charge of sirup in the pans.

Skipnoun

A beehive; a skep.

Skipnoun

A light leap or bound.

Skipnoun

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

Skipnoun

A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

Skipverb

To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; - commonly implying a sportive spirit.

‘The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?’; ‘So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.’;

Skipverb

Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; - often followed by over.

Skipverb

To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.

Skipverb

To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.

‘They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters.’;

Skipverb

To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.

Skipnoun

a gait in which steps and hops alternate

Skipnoun

a mistake resulting from neglect

Skipverb

bypass;

‘He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible’;

Skipverb

intentionally fail to attend;

‘cut class’;

Skipverb

jump lightly

Skipverb

leave suddenly;

‘She persuaded him to decamp’; ‘skip town’;

Skipverb

bound off one point after another

Skipverb

cause to skip over a surface;

‘Skip a stone across the pond’;

Skipverb

move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce

‘she began to skip down the path’;

Skipverb

jump over a rope which is held at both ends by oneself or two other people and turned repeatedly over the head and under the feet, as a game or for exercise

‘training was centred on running and skipping’;

Skipverb

jump over (a rope that is being turned)

‘the younger girls had been skipping rope’;

Skipverb

jump lightly over

‘the children used to skip the puddles’;

Skipverb

omit (part of a book that one is reading, or a stage in a sequence that one is following)

‘the video manual allows the viewer to skip sections he's not interested in’;

Skipverb

move quickly and in an unmethodical way from one point or subject to another

‘Marian skipped half-heartedly through the book’;

Skipverb

fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss

‘try not to skip breakfast’; ‘I wanted to skip my English lesson to visit my mother’;

Skipverb

abandon an undertaking, conversation, or activity

‘after several wrong turns in our journey, we almost decided to skip it’;

Skipverb

run away; disappear

‘I'm not giving them a chance to skip off again’;

Skipverb

depart quickly and secretly from

‘she skipped her home amid rumours of a romance’;

Skipverb

throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water

‘they skipped stones across the creek’;

Skipverb

act as skip of (a side)

‘they lost to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson’;

Skipnoun

a light, bouncing step; a skipping movement

‘he moved with a strange, dancing skip’;

Skipnoun

an act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.

Skipnoun

a person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.

Skipnoun

a large transportable open-topped container for building and other refuse

‘I've salvaged a carpet from a skip’;

Skipnoun

a cage or bucket in which men or materials are lowered and raised in mines and quarries.

Skipnoun

variant spelling of skep

Skipnoun

the captain or director of a side at bowls or curling.