What is the difference between The kids skipped happily down the street. and The kids jumped happily down the street. ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.

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natashio

26 February

English (UK)

So skipping and jumping mean the same thing when you talk about the sport, saltar la cuerda. But for movement, skipping is a kind of light, happy run, whereas jumping is not usually used to get from one place to another, like the verb brincar

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Anth22

26 February

Spanish (Spain)

@natashio and if I say, skip the air-strip to the sunset. How would it he?

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natashio

26 February

English (UK)

@Anth22 well "skip" also has the meaning of intentionally missing something, like faltar a (una clase etc), so you also need to add something directional to show you're talking about movement here. In the first example you said "skipped ... down" but you can also use along, over, by etc..
So for your sentence you could say "skip down/along the air-strip"
We also usually say in English "into the sunset," probably because if you say "to" it means you can arrive at the sunset, which isn't strictly true
So: "skip down the air-strip into the sunset" is probably best. Hope this helps!

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Anth22

26 February

Spanish (Spain)

@natashio pero lo saqué de una canción. skip down/along the air-strip to the sunset, significa que saltes la pista de aterrizaje o saltes por la pista de aterrizate a la puesta del sol? cual sería el significado?

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