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Skip to My Lou
Skip to My Lou (Roud 3433) is an 1840s American play-party song and partner-stealing circle dance from the frontier, later a children's song; known for the "Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou" refrain and Lead Belly's 1951 Folkways recording.
Skip-Bo
Skip-Bo is Mattel's sequencing card game for 2-6 players, ages 7+, a 1967 commercial version of Spite and Malice: race to empty a 30-card stock pile onto shared building piles counting 1 to 12, with 18 wild Skip-Bo cards.
Skipjack (boat)
Skipjack: Chesapeake Bay single-masted oyster-dredging sailboat, also called two-sail bateau; built 1880s-1950s, Maryland state boat since 1985, fewer than 30 of roughly 700-2,000 built survive.
Skipjack tuna
Skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), also called ocean bonito or aku, is the world's most-caught tuna, a surface-schooling tropical tuna of all oceans taken mainly for canning, with record 2024 WCPO catch of 2,107,666 tonnes.
Skipper (Barbie)
Skipper (Skipper Roberts) is Mattel's Barbie doll little sister, introduced 1964 as Barbie's first family member, aged eight at debut. Known for six vintage versions, the controversial 1975 Growing Up Skipper, and the current Skipper Babysitters Inc. teen babysitter playline.
Skipper CCD
A skipper CCD is a charge-coupled device that measures each pixel's charge repeatedly and non-destructively, achieving sub-electron readout noise for dark matter searches like SENSEI and DAMIC.
Skipping Christmas
Skipping Christmas is John Grisham's 2001 Doubleday comic novel about Luther and Nora Krank, who skip Christmas for a Caribbean cruise; a #1 bestseller, it was adapted as the 2004 film Christmas with the Kranks starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Skipping rope
A skipping rope, also called a jump rope, is a length of rope with handles swung under the feet and jumped over as play, exercise, or sport.
Skippy Browning
Skippy Browning (David Greig Browning Jr., 1931–1956), American springboard diver, 1952 Helsinki Olympic 3m gold medalist, eight-time AAU and four-time NCAA champion, killed in a Navy jet crash training for 1956.
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian children's adventure series about an orphaned kangaroo who helps a ranger family in the fictional Waratah National Park near Sydney, broadcast from 1968 to 1970.
Skiptrace
Skiptrace (skip tracing) is the investigative process of locating people whose contact information is unknown, used in debt collection, service of process, and law enforcement via public records and licensed databases under FCRA, GLBA, DPPA, and state law.
Skiptrace (绝地逃亡) (film)
Skiptrace (绝地逃亡) is a 2016 Renny Harlin action comedy starring Jackie Chan as Hong Kong detective Bennie Chan and Johnny Knoxville as gambler Connor Watts chasing crime boss Victor Wong; a China-Hong Kong-US co-production that earned over $130 million in China but scored 38% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Skirmisher
Skirmisher: a soldier fighting in dispersed small engagements ahead of or alongside a main force, also called tirailleur or light infantry, harassing and screening; used from Roman velites through Napoleonic voltigeurs to proposed modern two-to-four-soldier swarm teams.
Skírnir
Skírnir is an Icelandic scholarly and cultural journal published by the Icelandic Literary Society since 1827, making it the oldest cultural journal in the Nordic countries.
Skírnismál
Skírnismál, also known as For Skírnis, is a 42-stanza mythological poem of the Poetic Edda in which Freyr sends Skírnir to woo the giantess Gerðr.
Skirt
Skirt: a waist-hung, unbifurcated garment covering some or all of the legs (Old Norse skyrta). Covers anatomy, silhouettes (A-line, pencil, pleated), history from the shendyt and kaunakes, hemline theory, and cross-cultural and gender norms.
Skirt steak
Skirt steak, also called arrachera or fajita meat (Japanese harami, ハラミ), is a thin, coarse-grained beef cut from the plate. Two muscles share the name: outside skirt (IMPS 121C, the diaphragm, thicker and pricier) and inside skirt (121D, chewier). Cooked hot and fast, sliced against the grain.
SkisM
SkisM, also written SKisM, is the stage name of Tom Petais, an English dubstep DJ and producer from London who co-founded Never Say Die Records and Disciple Records.
Skitch Henderson
Skitch Henderson (Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson, 1918–2005), American pianist, bandleader, and conductor; original Tonight Show bandleader for Steve Allen and Johnny Carson, 1963 Grammy winner for Porgy and Bess, and founder of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall.
Skittles (confectionery)
Skittles is a Mars Wrigley fruit candy with a hard shell and chewy center, launched in the UK in 1974 and in the US in 1979; titanium dioxide was removed in 2025 and FD&C-free versions launched in 2026.
Skittles (sport)
Skittles, a traditional European pin game and ancestor of ten-pin bowling, played with nine wooden pins in a diamond, rolled or thrown at with balls or cheeses; pub league sport of western England with many regional variants.
Skjold field
Skjold field (Danish: Skjoldfeltet) is an oil field in the Danish sector of the North Sea about 200 km west of Esbjerg, discovered in 1977 and producing since 1982 as a satellite to the Gorm field.
Skjold Oil and Gas Field
Skjold is an oil field in the Danish sector of the North Sea, discovered in 1977 and operated by TotalEnergies as a satellite of the Gorm field.
Skjold-class corvette
Skjold-class corvette: six Royal Norwegian Navy surface-effect-ship missile boats, prototype KNM Skjold delivered 1999 by Umoe Mandal, series approved 2003. Speeds up to 60 knots, NSM missiles and 76 mm gun.
Skjoldungen
Skjoldungen (Saqqisikuik) is a large uninhabited island in southeastern Greenland's Sermersooq municipality, named in 1829 by W.A. Graah, site of a settlement founded 1938 and abandoned 1964-65.
Sklar Brothers
The Sklar Brothers, Randy and Jason Sklar, are identical twin comedians from St. Louis known for ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats, Netflix's What Are We Talking About, and sports-comedy podcasts.
Sklavenitis (Σκλαβενίτης)
Sklavenitis (Σκλαβενίτης) is a Greek family-owned supermarket group, the country's largest by turnover, founded in 1954 in Athens and operating 545 stores across Greece and Cyprus.
Sklavokampos
Sklavokampos (Σκλαβόκαμπος, Sklavokambos), a Minoan rural villa near Gonies, Crete, on Mount Ida's slopes; found 1930, excavated by Spyridon Marinatos, famous for 39 clay sealings; University of Crete excavation 2023–2027.
Sklodowska (lunar crater)
Sklodowska, also Sklodowska crater, is a 125.55 km Imbrian-age complex impact crater on the Moon's farside at 18.04°S, 96.15°E, named for Marie Skłodowska Curie, with two central peaks and Copernicus-like morphology.
Sklodowska (Martian crater)
Sklodowska crater: officially a 125.55-km lunar crater at 18.04°S 96.15°E, IAU-approved 1961 for Marie Skłodowska Curie; the Gazetteer lists no Martian crater of this name.