skipping
v.v. to move forward with light, bouncy steps or to miss something on purpose. You might skip a meal if you are busy or skip a page in a book.
v. to move along by hopping on one foot and then the other; alternatively, to omit or fail to attend to something in a sequence. Often used to describe the intentional avoidance of a scheduled event or task.
The children are skipping down the street together.
I decided to skip the morning meeting because I had too much urgent work to finish.
While the protagonist's journey is detailed, the author chooses to skip several years of his life, resuming the narrative only when he reaches adulthood.
The sense of omitting something is transitive and requires a direct object; the sense of movement is intransitive.
I am skipping to the classI am skipping classWhen 'skip' means to miss an event on purpose, it is transitive and does not take the preposition 'to'.