skive

IPA: skˈaɪv

(Britain, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
(Britain, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.
A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond.
An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something.

(Britain, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of.

Examples of "skive" in Sentences

Tone of voice after having a skive off work the day before
More From The Times Britons to skive off work for Murray semi.
I am hoping to convince wifey to let me skive off for a couple of days from Brisbane to go.
Of course the rehab place, unlike the hospital, makes H do this routinely, and he tries, often successfully, to skive at home.
The Brazilian culture has achieved true mastery of the art of doing nothing, or as they phrase it "vadiar." vadiar: to lounge about (não trabalhar), to idle about (não estudar), to skive (perambular), to wander
The only reason Lindsay had an alcohol education programme to skive is because her expensive lawyers managed to swing it for her, in order that she might swerve jail time for a previous conviction – an offence that is considerably less easy to sympathise with.
After his family moved from a home close to Parkhead to a flat near Ibrox, Dalglish befriended a young Rangers player called Alex Miller and it was not unknown for him to skive off school in order to hang around the club before cadging favours from a senior pro.