skip school
Ditch your classes
To skip school is to be absent without permission, avoiding classes for the day or part of it.
The phrase implies deliberate choice rather than illness or emergency: We skipped school and went to the beach.
Playing hooky and cutting class are synonymous.
Skip suggests casual truancy rather than chronic absence.
- truantUnauthorized school no-show
- ditchShallow excavated channel
- cut classDeliberately miss school
- hookyUnauthorized school absence
- absentNot in attendance
ditch class · call in sick · sneak out · sneak off · detention · suspension · delinquent · rebel · bored · cigarettes · arcade · mall · hangout · excuses · principal · parent teacher conference · caught · in trouble
- misbehaviormisbehave, misbehavior, mischief, misconduct, naughty