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Skipping vs Bouncing - What's the difference?

skipping | bouncing |

As verbs the difference between skipping and bouncing

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

As nouns the difference between skipping and bouncing

is that skipping is the act by which something is skipped or omitted while bouncing is the act of something that bounces.

As an adjective bouncing is

healthy; vigorous.

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.

    bouncing

    English

    Adjective

  • healthy; vigorous.
    • a bouncing baby girl
  • * Thackeray
    • many tall and bouncing young ladies
  • (obsolete) excessive; big
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • a bouncing reckoning

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * bouncing off the walls

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that bounces.
  • * 1997 , Daniel Price, Without a Woman to Read: Toward the Daughter in Postmodernism
    • this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those bouncings .

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