# Do you skip? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773 "2003-12-13T13:12:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![A\_Curious\_Writer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@A\_Curious\_Writer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Curious_Writer)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/1 "2003-12-13T13:12:09Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/2 "2003-12-13T13:56:15Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Dinaroozie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Dinaroozie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinaroozie)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/3 "2003-12-13T14:38:22Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/4 "2003-12-13T15:03:44Z")
I skip! But I’m an elementary school teacher. Perhaps I don’t count as an impartial opinion… FB ---
**Author:** ![Newton\_meter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/57b2e6/32.png) [@Newton\_meter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newton_meter)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/5 "2003-12-13T16:00:25Z")
Sure I skip. Who doesn’t? I’m 32, and male, and **Joule** rolls her eyes when she’s with me. But yes, I skip. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Curious\_Writer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@A\_Curious\_Writer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Curious_Writer)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/6 "2003-12-13T17:36:02Z")
A skip fest sounds cool - and I’m male, too, in case I didn’t mention it. ---
**Author:** ![shannablu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@shannablu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shannablu)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/7 "2003-12-13T20:40:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/8 "2003-12-13T22:48:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Raxel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Raxel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raxel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/9 "2003-12-13T22:54:44Z")
Yay skip fest…will there be cheese? ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/10 "2003-12-13T22:57:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Raxel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Raxel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raxel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/11 "2003-12-13T22:57:14Z")
I’m 13 and a girl so itz okay 4 me 2 skip but some of you scare me maybe itz the worlds not ready for our skip fest … how about a cheese fest??? ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/12 "2003-12-13T23:20:07Z")
> [@](#): > > “Real children don’t go hoppity-skip unless they are on drugs.” – Terry Pratchett ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/13 "2003-12-13T23:31:46Z")
I skipped just yesterday at work. misstee-- 26 year old “kid”. ---
**Author:** ![Winterwren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Winterwren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winterwren)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/14 "2003-12-13T23:32:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/15 "2003-12-13T23:38:05Z")
I skipped just yesterday at work. misstee-- 26 year old “kid”. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/16 "2003-12-14T00:16:09Z")
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). I’m 38 this past September. ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/17 "2003-12-14T00:50:29Z")
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. 😉 - **hyperjes** , f, 26 ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/18 "2003-12-14T01:15:52Z")
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?” ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/19 "2003-12-14T01:50:00Z")
How utterly charming of you all! 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. Curiously enough, my nickname is Skip. Honest. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/20 "2003-12-14T03:14:21Z")
((((( **Antiochus** ))))) Hope you feel better quick. Let me know when you are skipping, and I will skip with you. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773.md?page=2)