"skirt around" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skirts around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skirting around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skirted around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skirted around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "skirt around (third-person singular simple present skirts around, present participle skirting around, simple past and past participle skirted around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 July 21, Rachel Hall, “Anti-nuclear groups welcome Oppenheimer film but say it fails to depict true horror”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Yet the reality in Japan was far more gruesome than the artful depiction in the film, which skirts around the human suffering caused by the bomb.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid."
      ],
      "id": "en-skirt_around-en-verb-CMC8mHJz",
      "links": [
        [
          "circumvent",
          "circumvent"
        ],
        [
          "bypass",
          "bypass"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "dance around"
        },
        {
          "word": "talk around"
        },
        {
          "word": "tap dance around"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "huíbì",
          "sense": "circumvent",
          "word": "迴避 /回避"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "circumvent",
          "word": "omzeilen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "circumvent",
          "word": "kiertää"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "circumvent",
          "word": "kierrellä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "circumvent",
          "word": "vältellä"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "circumvent",
          "word": "taku"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skirt around"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skirts around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skirting around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skirted around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skirted around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "skirt around (third-person singular simple present skirts around, present participle skirting around, simple past and past participle skirted around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "dance around"
    },
    {
      "word": "talk around"
    },
    {
      "word": "tap dance around"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"around\"",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
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        "Terms with Finnish translations",
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        {
          "ref": "2023 July 21, Rachel Hall, “Anti-nuclear groups welcome Oppenheimer film but say it fails to depict true horror”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Yet the reality in Japan was far more gruesome than the artful depiction in the film, which skirts around the human suffering caused by the bomb.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "circumvent",
          "circumvent"
        ],
        [
          "bypass",
          "bypass"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huíbì",
      "sense": "circumvent",
      "word": "迴避 /回避"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "circumvent",
      "word": "omzeilen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "circumvent",
      "word": "kiertää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "circumvent",
      "word": "kierrellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "circumvent",
      "word": "vältellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "circumvent",
      "word": "taku"
    }
  ],
  "word": "skirt around"
}