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A stone skimming across the water Stone skipping in slow motion Stone skipping and stone skimming are the arts of throwing a flat stone across water in such a way (usually sidearm) that it bounces off the surface. "Skipping" counts the number of bounces; "skimming" measures the distance traveled.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stone skipping” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.