# Do you skip?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773>\
**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\
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**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/21 "2003-12-14T04:16:58Z")

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I don’t but Princess, my 11#, 7 year old Shih Tzu skips every now and then. Sometimes because of a line in the pavement or walkway and sometimes just to be doing so.

“Beware of the Cog”

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**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/22 "2003-12-14T05:56:32Z")

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Yay! I, too, skip on occasion. It’s fun.

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**Author:** ![Kakofonous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9a140/32.png) [@Kakofonous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakofonous)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/23 "2003-12-14T05:57:22Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Dinaroozie \*  
> **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?**

I do it, too. Left side then right side.

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**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/24 "2003-12-14T06:02:32Z")

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I skipped just today, while singing “Yippity dippity doodly doo!”

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/25 "2003-12-14T06:06:36Z")

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**Antiochus** , I’m a little late in welcoming you here. But I can’t tell you how nice it is to have an elder around. 😉 (I’m 60.)

I haven’t skipped in a long time, but when no one is looking, I think I just may try it. Feel better soon!

I do fly sometimes…hold my arms out on windy days and pretend I’m flying. Don’t tell.

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**Author:** ![Dinaroozie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Dinaroozie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinaroozie)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/26 "2003-12-14T09:06:04Z")

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**Kakofonous:** It’s good to know I’m not alone on that one.

**Zoe:** I find that flying works very well at night whilst wearing tails. I’d imagine a cape would be better still, but I don’t have one.

~ Isaac

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**Author:** ![improbably\_blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8dc957/32.png) [@improbably\_blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/improbably_blonde)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/27 "2003-12-14T15:40:01Z")

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I skipped recently, and hopped up and down.  
I’d seen a little kid do it in the mall coming toward me, and so I mirrored her. She got a huge giggle fit out of it.

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**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/28 "2003-12-14T20:33:52Z")

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I love to skip, but then again I make up little songs to sing to myself while I do it. And I don’t even have kids to blame it on

25 and female thank you very much

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**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/29 "2003-12-14T21:08:13Z")

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**Antiochus** , go you! Hope you are better soon.  
In the meantime, if you want to warm up with a more discreet yet incredibly childish alternative perambulation, I offer the following which I discovered a few weeks ago.

Buy two half-liter bottles of coke (or beverage of your choice). When placed in the side pockets of your jacket, caps outward, they make excellent motorbike handles. Grasp a bottleneck in each hand, rev them a little and off you go. Leading with your pelvis makes it feel like you are going faster, and it is vital that you make brrrrrrrr-noises with your lips for the engine sound.

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**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/30 "2003-12-14T21:48:55Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Dinaroozie \*  
> \*\*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?
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> ~ Isaac
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> Additional bonus afterthought: Would it be unreasonable to organise a Doper skip-fest in the streets of a major city somewhere? \*\*

**Dinaroozie** , 19 year old male checkin in. Yes, I jump and click my heels with glee from time to time. Yes, I get odd looks. No, I don’t care.

Carry on.

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**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/31 "2003-12-14T23:39:43Z")

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I skip every so often. I’ve even been known to jump and click my heels. I’m an 18 year-old male.

Sometimes you’re just so happy you’ve got to show it! 🙂

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**Author:** ![The\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/32 "2003-12-14T23:47:03Z")

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I am 27 male and I like to skip too, but i dont do it often cos it’s kinda regarded as a gay thing to do. But it’s great fun, and good excersise as well!

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**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/33 "2003-12-15T00:30:07Z")

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29 female.  
And yes - from time to time…  
but I twirl way more often than I skip. I try to do both when people aren’t looking.

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/34 "2003-12-15T00:38:35Z")

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I do it when I’m with other people who walk fast, because I can’t keep up otherwise…I’ve only got little legs _sulk_

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**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/35 "2003-12-15T01:27:36Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by amarinth \*  
> \*\*29 female.  
> And yes - from time to time…  
> but I twirl way more often than I skip. I try to do both when people aren’t looking. \*\*

Ooohhh, I twirl all the time. People look at me weird but it’s so fun.

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**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/36 "2003-12-15T04:33:47Z")

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I forgot to mention age and gender in my earlier post: I am 20 and female. I’ll be 21 in about three weeks. People my age who jump and click their heels are probably the type of people I’d like to hang out with…

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**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/37 "2003-12-15T20:40:51Z")

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I skip at work and with my kids when playing. I do the happy hamster dance more often at work, when I solve some tough problem. Occassionaly I click my heels but I generally land off balance.

36 in horse years, and a stallion by gender.

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**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/38 "2003-12-15T21:05:39Z")

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26, female, lawyer, yup.

I do it at random times to make people laugh.

I’m proud of being able to skip. I couldn’t do it (was too un-coordinated) until I was well past the time that skipping was considered age-appropriate activity.

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**Author:** ![sKipping\_girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@sKipping\_girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sKipping_girl)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/39 "2003-12-16T14:37:40Z")

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\<-------- Look at the name 😃

It says just about everything apart from the my age (18 btw).  
Wow this is such a great thread 🙂 I didn’t realise how many skippers there were out there!

I love skipping, though I don’t do it as often as I’d like. Though, IMO the best thing to do as well as skipping is jumping in puddles… oh they are my two joys in life!! I get some funny looks, but it’s so much fun 🙂

Lol, so now I’m just waiting for the Doper Skip-fest 😃

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**Author:** ![1337GMaN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/82dd89/32.png) [@1337GMaN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1337GMaN)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-skip/218773/40 "2003-12-16T14:43:11Z")

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Skip to the loo my darling 😃  
Oh what song was that from I can’t remember!!!  
and who skips to the loo??

How weird

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