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skimmingverbpresent participle of skim to turn over pages in an idle or cursory mannerI'll just skim through a few styling magazines and see if something interesting catches my eye flipping, leafing, riffling, thumbing browsing, dippingglancing (at), looking over, scanning poring (over)studying to move or proceed smoothly and readilya lone hang glider skimming along just above the treetops bowling, breezing, brushing, coasting, cruising, drifting, flowing, gliding, rolling, sailing, sliding, slipping, streaming, sweeping, whisking flying, racing, rushing, speeding floundering, struggling limping, lumbering, plodding, stumbling, trudgingshambling, shufflingstamping, stomping, stumping, trampinglaboring, toiling to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passingher hand just barely skimmed the wall as she ran down the hallway brushing, grazing, kissing, nudging, shaving bumping, contacting, scraping, sideswiping, striking, sweeping, swiping, touchingbouncing, caroming, glancing, rebounding, ricocheting(also ricochetting), skippingcaressing, cuddling, fondling, loving, patting, petting, strokingmissing, skirting banging, bashing, bumping, clashing, colliding, crashing, hitting, impacting, impinging, knocking, punching, ramming, slamming, slapping, smacking, smashing, swiping, thudding, thwacking, whacking to strike and fly off at an anglethe rock just skimmed the surface of the water bouncing, caroming, glancing, rebounding, ricocheting(also ricochetting), skipping brushing, grazing, nudging, raking, shaving, sweepingbumping, contacting, hitting, kissing, touchingsideswipingreflecting to take a quick or hasty lookhe impatiently skimmed through the book, looking for the specific passage he remembered seeing browsing, dipping, glancing, glimpsing, glinting, peeking keeking(chiefly Scottish), peepingblinking, squintinglooking over, perusing, raking, scanning gazing, staring examining, overlooking, overseeing, questioning, surveyingstudying, viewingpeering, pryinggawking, goggling, rubberneckingleering, ogling in the 15th century |