7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
verb to move about or proceed hurriedly
verb glide easily along a surface
verb cause to skip over a surface
originPossibly a frequentative of skite (“to move lightly and hurriedly; to move suddenly, particularly in an oblique direction”) (Scotland, Northern England). The noun is derived from the verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0