Skiff vs. Skip — What's the Difference?

The term skiff is used for a number of essentially unrelated styles of small boats. Traditionally, these are coastal craft or river craft used for leisure, as a utility craft and for fishing, and have a one-person or small crew.

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

A flatbottom open boat of shallow draft, having a pointed bow and a square stern and propelled by oars, sail, or motor.

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

A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.

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

Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.

Fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss

A light, fleeting shower of rain or snow, or gust of wind, etc.

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

A (typically light) dusting of snow or ice (or dust, etc) (on ground, water, trees, etc).

Act as skip of (a side)

An act of slightly pruning tea bushes, placing new leaves at a convenient height without removing much woody growth.

A light, bouncing step; a skipping movement

To navigate in a skiff.

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

To fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground (etc).

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

To cut (a tea bush) to maintain the plucking table.

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

A small, light boat.

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

To navigate in a skiff.

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

Any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor

To move by hopping on one foot and then the other.

To leap lightly about.

To bounce over or be deflected from a surface; skim or ricochet

To pass from point to point, omitting or disregarding what intervenes

To be promoted in school beyond the next regular class or grade.

(Informal) To leave hastily; abscond

To misfire. Used of an engine.

To leap or jump lightly over

To pass over without mentioning; omit

To miss or omit as one in a series

To cause to bounce lightly over a surface; skim.

To be promoted beyond (the next grade or level).

(Informal) To leave hastily

(Informal) To fail to attend

A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.

An act of passing over something; an omission.

A control mechanism on an audio or video player that interrupts the playing of a recording and advances or reverses to the beginning of the nearest chapter, track, or other division.

A container for receiving, transporting, and dumping waste materials.

(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

(intransitive) To leap about lightly.

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

(transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

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

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

To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.

To leap lightly over.

To jump rope.

To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.

(printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.

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

A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

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.

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

(radio) skywave propagation

A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. see also skep.

(mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.

(steelmaking) A skip car.

A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.

A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.

(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.

A beehive.

Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.

(specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.

(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.

(bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.

The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.

An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

A college servant.

A basket. See Skep.

A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.

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

A charge of sirup in the pans.

A beehive; a skep.

A light leap or bound.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A gait in which steps and hops alternate

A mistake resulting from neglect

Bypass;

Intentionally fail to attend;

Jump lightly

Leave suddenly;

Bound off one point after another

Cause to skip over a surface;