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Skim or skimming may refer to:

Sports and games

  • Skimboarding, also skimming, a sport which involves riding a board on wet sand or shallow water
  • Snowmobile skipping, also known as skimming, operating a snowmobile on water
  • Stone skimming, skipping or bouncing a stone on a water surface

Money, crime, and business

  • Price skimming, a marketing term
  • Skimming (credit card fraud), a type of credit card fraud
  • Skimming (fraud), a cash fraud
    • Skimming (casinos), one variant of this, in which organized crime took part of the take collected by casinos in Las Vegas

Computers and cybercrime

  • Skim (software), an open-source PDF reader
  • Smart Common Input Method, also called 'SKIM' when optimized for the K Desktop Environment
  • Web skimming, the stealing of payment information via malware injection

Other

  • Skimming (reading), a process or technique of speed reading
  • Skim (graphic novel), a Canadian coming-of-age graphic novel

See also

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