Verb

(en verb)

To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.

The boy jumped over a fence.

Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.

* Shakespeare

Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square.

To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.

She is going to jump from the diving board.

To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.

to jump a stream

To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.

The sudden sharp sound made me jump .

To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.

The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.

To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.

I hate it when people jump the queue.

To attack suddenly and violently.

The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.

To engage in sexual intercourse.

The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.

To cause to jump.

The rider jumped the horse over the fence.

To move the distance between two opposing subjects.

To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.

(cycling) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.

(obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.

* Shakespeare

to jump a body with a dangerous physic

(smithwork) To join by a buttweld.

To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

(quarrying) To bore with a jumper.

(obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with .

* Shakespeare

It jumps with my humour.

Verb

(skipp)

To move by hopping on alternate feet.

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

To leap about lightly.

* Alexander Pope

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

So she drew her mother away skipping , dancing, and frisking fantastically.

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To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

The rock will skip across the pond.

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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.

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.

* Bishop Burnet

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

To place an item in a skip.

(informal) 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.

(informal) To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.

* 1998 ,

I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast

She really want to ''skip town

Get back off me, beast off me

Get back you flea infested mongrel

To leap lightly over.

to skip the rope

To jump rope.

The girls were skipping in the playground.