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Acronyms

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SKIP Skip or Skips may refer to: Acronyms * SKIP (Skeletal muscle and kidney enriched inositol phosphatase), a human gene * Simple Key-Management for Internet Protocol * SKIP of New York (Sick Kids need Involved People), a non-profit agency aidin ...
(Skeletal muscle and kidney enriched inositol phosphatase), a human gene * Simple Key-Management for Internet Protocol * SKIP of New York (Sick Kids need Involved People), a non-profit agency aiding families with sick or developmentally disabled children * System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns, an original system for indexing kanji by the
Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary The ''Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary'' is a kanji dictionary based on the ''New Japanese-English Character Dictionary'' by Jack Halpern at the CJK Dictionary Institute and published by Kenkyūsha. Originally published in 1999 (with a mino ...


Business

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Skip (company) Skip (est. in 2017) was a San Francisco-based company which provided a scooter-sharing system in several American cities. The company was founded by Matt Tran, Mike Wadhera, and Sanjay Dastoor during Y Combinator's winter 2018 class. Skip differe ...
, scooter sharing service *
Skip Ltd. Skip Ltd. (stylized as skip Ltd.) is a Japanese video game developer that has a close relationship with Nintendo. Nintendo has published all of their Japanese releases; with the only notable exception being ''LOL'' (''Archime DS''), which skip ...
, a Japanese video game developer *
SkipTheDishes SkipTheDishes (styled capitalized, sometimes shortened to just SKIP) is a Canadian online food delivery service headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba and a division of Dutch-based Just Eat Takeaway.com. Users can order and pay for food from part ...
, food delivery company


Characters

* Skip Ricter, a character in the movie ''Cars'' * the title character of the autobiography ''
My Dog Skip {{Refimprove, date=March 2009 ''My Dog Skip'' is a memoir by Willie Morris published by Random House in 1995. ''My Dog Skip'' is the story about nine-year-old Willie Morris growing up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, a tale of a boy and his dog in ...
'' by Willie Morris and the film adaptation of the same name * Skip, a minor character from the TV series ''Angel'' * Skip, a character from the British children's show ''Bob the Builder'' * Skips, a character on the American animated series ''Regular Show'' * Skips, on ''
Camp Lazlo ''Camp Lazlo'' is an American animated television series created by Joe Murray for Cartoon Network. The series follows Lazlo, an anthropomorphic spider monkey that goes to a camp called "Camp Kidney", a Boy Scout-like summer camp in Pimpleback M ...
'', an American animated TV series


People

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Skip (nickname) Skip is a nickname (for example, when a name has skipped a generation), or a short form of the given name Skipper. Notable people with the name include: In arts and entertainment * Skip Arnold (born 1957), American contemporary artist * Skip Batt ...
* Ring name of
Chris Candido Christopher Barrett Candito (March 21, 1972 – April 28, 2005) was an American professional wrestler. Candito is best remembered for his tenures with promotions such as World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling, New Japan Pro-W ...
(1972-2005), American professional wrestler


Storms

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Tropical Storm Skip (1982) The 1982 Pacific typhoon season had no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1982. On average, most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each y ...
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Tropical Storm Skip (1985) The 1985 Pacific hurricane season is the third-most active Pacific hurricane season on record. It officially started on May 15, 1985, in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1985, in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1985. These d ...


Other uses

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Minecart A minecart or mine cart (also known as a mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for moving ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining. Minecarts are seldom used in modern operat ...
, also called a skip *
Skip (container) A skip (or skip bin) is a large open-topped waste container designed for loading onto a special type of lorry. Typically skip bins have a distinctive shape: the longitudinal cross-section of the skip bin is either a trapezium or two stacked ...
, British English word for large waste container, similar to US dumpster *
Skip (curling) In the sport of curling, the skip is the captain of a team. The skip determines strategy, and holds the broom in the ''house'' (target area) to indicate where a teammate at the other end of the curling ''sheet'' (playing area) should aim the sto ...
, the captain of a curling team *
Skip (radio) In radio communication, skywave or skip refers to the propagation of radio waves reflected or refracted back toward Earth from the ionosphere, an electrically charged layer of the upper atmosphere. Since it is not limited by the curvature of ...
, skywave radio propagation *
Skips (snack) Skips are a crisp from the United Kingdom and Ireland; which were first launched in 1974 in prawn cocktail flavour. Skips are similar to Chinese prawn crackers, although they are smaller and have a finer texture that makes them fizz and melt ...
* Skip, a detergent brand from
Unilever Unilever plc is a British multinational consumer goods company with headquarters in London, England. Unilever products include food, condiments, bottled water, baby food, soft drink, ice cream, instant coffee, cleaning agents, energy drink, t ...
* The Skip, a route run by the
Regional Transportation District The Regional Transportation District, more commonly referred to as RTD, is the regional agency operating public transit services in eight out of the twelve counties in the Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area in the U.S. state of Col ...
that runs between North and South Boulder, Colorado


See also

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Skep A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus '' Apis'' live and raise their young. Though the word ''beehive'' is commonly used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature ...
, a type of beehive *
Skip-stop Skip-stop is a public transit service pattern which reduces travel times and increases capacity by having vehicles ''skip'' certain ''stops'' along a route. Originating in rapid transit systems, skip-stop may be also used in light rail and bus s ...
, a public transit service pattern *
Skipper (disambiguation) Skipper or skippers may refer to: Rank * Skipper (boating), a person who has command of a vessel * Skipper (rank), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve. Also informal for an officer of sergeant rank in British policing * T ...
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Skipping (disambiguation) Skipping may refer to: * The hippity-hoppity gait that comes naturally to children * A game or form of exercise using a skipping rope * Exon skipping, in molecular biology * Stone skipping, throwing a stone so that it bounces off the surface of wa ...
* Skippy (disambiguation) *
Skiptrace Skiptrace (also skip tracing, or debtor and fugitive recovery) is the process of locating a person's whereabouts. A skip tracer is someone who performs this task, which may be the person's primary occupation. The term "skip" (as a noun) refers t ...
, a person being searched for; derived from the idiomatic expression "to skip town" {{disambiguation