(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals. / An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.

(archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize / (archaic) to minimize

(sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.

plural of skeleton / Shameful secrets (pluralia tantum; shortened from skeletons in the cupboard or skeletons in the closet).

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skeleton

Someone who competes in the skeleton event.

plural of skeletoneer

present participle of skeletonize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skeletonize

The act or process of skeletonizing.