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Skinwalker Ranch
Skinwalker Ranch, also called Sherman Ranch, is a 512-acre property southeast of Ballard, Utah, in the Uinta Basin, investigated since 1996 for reported UFO, cattle mutilation, and paranormal phenomena, owned since 2016 by Brandon Fugal and featured on History Channel since 2020, with no peer-reviewed reproducible evidence produced.
Skip Bayless
Skip Bayless (John Edward Bayless II, born 1951), American sports columnist and TV debate host; co-hosted ESPN First Take 2007-2016 and Fox Sports 1 Undisputed 2016-2024, now hosts The Skip Bayless Show podcast.
Skip Beat! (スキップ・ビート!)
Skip Beat! (スキップ・ビート!) is a long-running shōjo manga by Yoshiki Nakamura, serialized in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume since 2002, about Kyoko Mogami's revenge-driven rise through showbiz; 47+ Japanese volumes, 51 English, 2008-2009 anime.
Skip Brittenham
Harry "Skip" Brittenham (1941-2025) was an American entertainment lawyer, co-founder of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, pioneer of Hollywood's backend profit-participation deal, and adviser on the Pixar-Disney sale and DreamWorks Animation IPO.
Skip Capital
Skip Capital is the Sydney-based family office of Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar and his wife Kim Jackson, founded in 2017, with investments including Canva and Figma.
Skip Holtz
Skip Holtz (born 1964), American football coach, son of Lou Holtz; head coach at UConn, East Carolina, South Florida, and Louisiana Tech (118-98), then won three straight spring titles with the Birmingham Stallions (USFL 2022-23, UFL 2024) before leaving in December 2025.
Skip Homeier
Skip Homeier (George Vincent Homeier, 1930–2017) was an American actor, a radio and Broadway child star in Tomorrow the World who became a prolific film and TV villain, including two Star Trek guest roles.
Skip list
A skip list is a probabilistic data structure for sorted keys that supports search, insertion, and deletion in expected logarithmic time, introduced by William Pugh in 1990 and used in Redis and LevelDB.
Skip Marley
Skip Marley (Skip Marley Minto, born 1996, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae-pop singer, grandson of Bob and Rita Marley and son of Cedella, known for "Lions," "Chained to the Rhythm" with Katy Perry, "Slow Down" with H.E.R., and the Grammy-nominated EP Higher Place.
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.