Skipping

A bipedal gait pattern in which the legs alternate doing a step-hop.   It is a symmetrical pattern in that each leg does the same thing, but it is a complex gait because a walking step followed by a hop is done before transferring the body’s weight to the other leg that then does its step-hop.  The gait has an uneven rhythm as the step takes longer than the hop to perform.  This is the last of the bipedal ‘fundamental’ gaits to emerge in children. 

See Gait, Galloping, Hopping, Locomotion, Running, Walking