• Skimming (reading), a process or technique of speed reading

Sports and games

• Skimboarding
  Skimboarding
  Skimboarding . is used to glide across the water's surface. Unlike surfing, skimboarding begins on the beach by dropping the board onto the thin wash of previous waves. Skimboarders use their momentum to 'skim' out to breaking waves, which they then catch back into shore in a manner similar to...
  
  , also skimming, a sport which involves riding a board on wet sand or shallow water
• Snowmobile skipping
  Snowmobile skipping
  Snowmobile skipping, snowmobile watercross, snowmobile skimming, or water skipping is a sport and/or exhibition where snowmobile racers hydroplane their sleds across lakes or rivers.-Basics:...
  
  , 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
  Price skimming
  Price skimming is a pricing strategy in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first, then lowers the price over time. It is a temporal version of price discrimination/yield management...
  
  , a marketing term
• Skimming (credit card fraud), a type of credit card fraud
• Skimming (fraud)
  Skimming (fraud)
  A form of white-collar crime, skimming is a slang termhttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/skim that refers to taking cash "off the top" of the daily receipts of a business and officially reporting a lower total.- Examples :* A skimming crime may be simple tax evasion: the owner of a business...
  
  , a cash fraud
  • Skimming (casinos)
    Skimming (casinos)
    "In May of 1963...the FBI turned over to the Justice Department a two-volume document called "The Skimming Report," which detailed the illegal siphoning off of gambling profits by Las Vegas casinos to avoid taxes." The report documented how pre-tax profits from casinos were being routed to various...
    
    , one variant of this, in which organized crime took part of the take collected by casinos in Las Vegas
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
    
    

Computers

• SKIM (KDE software), an input method platform, based on the Smart Common Input Method, but optimized for the K Desktop Environment
• Skim (software)
  Skim (software)
  Skim is an open-source PDF reader. It is notably the first free PDF reader for Mac OS X. It is written in Objective-C, and uses Cocoa APIs. It is released under a BSD license. It is also cited as being able to help annotate and read scientific papers....
  
  , an open source PDF reader and note-taker for Mac OS X

See also

• Skimmer (machine)
  Skimmer (machine)
  An oil skimmer is a machine that separates a liquid from particles floating on it or from another liquid. A common application is removing oil floating on water. These technologies are commonly used for oil spill remediation but are also commonly found in industry...
  
  , a machine that separates liquids or solids from the top of a liquid, e.g. cream from whole milk or oil from an ocean spill
• Skim milk, a variety of milk from which the fat has been removed