Yes, skip. As in walking with a little hop like you see kids do.
I’m 34, but I find that it’s fun to do, and also makes me feel young and more carefree again - whether from memories of years past or not, I don’t know.
I usually just do it while taking walks alone, but sometimes I find myself doing it around friends, too. I’m a little unique, i guess you could say, but I have found this to be a great way to perk myself up at times. And unlike what the commercials seem to indicate, I dn’t even need Viagra to have a spring in my step - just faith.
So, am I possibly starting a craze, or are there other adults who like to skip at times?
I love to skip! I’m 34 too. I have two kids so I usually do it in public with them. Unless I’d just won the lottery or something I wouln’t do it on a city street by myself, but I wish I felt like I could. It is just about the most joyful way to move!
I’m eighteen, and I can’t deny that I skip from time to time. I’m a guy, too. Would it be sexist to suggest that posting gender along with skipping preference might be relevant information?
Slight hijack: Does anyone else jump and click their heels to one side in that stupid feel-good-movie type way? Or is it just me?
~ Isaac
Additional bonus afterthought: Would it be unreasonable to organise a Doper skip-fest in the streets of a major city somewhere?
I like to skip also, but usually it is with my daughter. She’s four and just recently learned how, so we practice all of the time and yes, i really love to do it.
I skip too, on occasion, and I’m 28. No, I don’t have a child to skip with, I’m capable of being crazy all on my own.
my bf likes it, though. Makes him feel a bit more normal.
I skip all the time, mainly at work. I am often back and forth between my own department and another and I often skip on the way. At other times, generally when with the wife, I do a sideways skip that fills me with joy. MrsIteki calls it my lemur hop. Yeah, I do the arms to go with it. 27 f here.
I skip. I skip in circles around my friends, I skip backwards on level streets (I check first), I spin while skipping, both clockwise and counterclockwise, I do the the “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” step, and have all my life.
I also tend to skip whenever the light changes to “DON’T WALK” – after all, I’m not supposed to be walking then, am I? I chassee, I leap, I occasionally hop, and I do high kicks when it’s safe.
And the age-check here is 41, for the record. It makes me happy, it amuses my friends and random strangers, and adds a little bit of surreality to the city.
Skip , frolic, and sometimes ride a pretend horse – have done all three through the British Museum. Another favourite activity is to ‘jump’ off the bottoms and tops of escalators so I get a little extra hop-leap in my walk (I usually run up and down the escalators if I can).
Sure, I skip! I also play with legos, hold tea parties for my “dead” and anime dolls, color in coloring books, read children’s books and sleep in footie pajamas.
I do grown-up stuff, too. None of it is as much fun though- except that one thing.
I haven’t in a while, but my best experience skipping occurred during my undergrad career, so I was say 20 or 21. A couple of friends and I were skipping arm-in-arm down rue Ste. Catherine in Montreal, and we may even have been singing “We’re off to see the Wizard.” A guy walking the other direction stopped, looked at us, and said, “Whatever it is you’re on, can I have some too?”
I’m 69 and might try skipping later this month. This past Tuesday I fell on the ice in my driveway, and got a hairline fracture of the fibula (the small bone in the lower leg).
So, I’m in a cast. But by golly, before the year is out, I’m gonna skip down my driveway to get the papers, and when I do, I’ll think of all you wonderfully uninhibited folks.
