The phrase "a skip of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small jump or leap, often in a playful or lighthearted context.
Example: "The children took a skip of joy as they ran towards the playground."
Alternatives: "a leap of" or "a hop of".
"It is," I said, and then I experienced a skip of apprehension.
Each hardcover is its own mysterious, particular object, and publishing one is a skip of the stone.
The protests have grown less frequent; the country has escaped to the beach; the latest cell-phone push notifications from news apps no longer produce a skip of the heart.
Politics runs in some American families, a way of life proudly -- even dutifully -- passed down, sometimes directly from one generation to the next, sometimes with a skip of a few decades.
The incident happened on New Dock Street, Llanelli, after a skip of concrete fell as it was being lowered.
A slice thickness of 1 mm with a skip of 0.3 mm and a matrix of 512 × 256 pixels was used.
The B6 SSS event found within the Gabra2 gene is supported with read coverage of 6 and results in a skipping of an exon.
LMNA-linked heterozygous RD mutations cause a skipping of exon 11 and lead to a deletion of 90 amino acids [ 7].
Twenty clones from the patient were sequenced to verify the inserts, and 5 of them showed truncated inserts with a skipping of exon 19– 4(e)).
Surprisingly, sequence analysis of this cDNA region in our immortalized cell lines revealed a deletion of the last 121 nucleotides of exon 33 instead of a skipping of exon 34 (or a portion of exon 34), as expected.
