Meanings
verbskirt around (third-person singular simple present skirts around, present participle skirting around, simple past and past participle skirted around)
present singular third person skirts around · participle present skirting around · participle past skirted around · past skirted around
- To circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid.
Yet the reality in Japan was far more gruesome than the artful depiction in the film, which skirts around the human suffering caused by the bomb.
2023 July 21, Rachel Hall, “Anti-nuclear groups welcome Oppenheimer film but say it fails to depict true horror”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 迴避 /回避
- 迴避 /回避 (huíbì)circumvent
Dutch omzeilen
- omzeilencircumvent
Finnish kiertää, kierrellä
- kiertääcircumvent
- kierrelläcircumvent
- vältelläcircumvent
Māori taku
- takucircumvent
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skirt around,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skirt%20around.
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