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Hopping vs Skipping - What's the difference?

hopping | skipping |

As nouns the difference between hopping and skipping

is that hopping is hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent while skipping is the act by which something is skipped or omitted.

As verbs the difference between hopping and skipping

is that hopping is present participle of lang=en while skipping is present participle of lang=en.

hopping

English

Etymology 1

Alternative spelling () of

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
  • * Hopping Down in Kent , Alan Bignell (1977).
  • * 1915 , ":
  • *:He took his whole family to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny's home, and they spent three weeks hopping .
  • The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

    • Etymology 2

    to hop

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
  • (countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.

    • skipping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.