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6	->''"Riley was supposed to be Mr. Joe Guy. We were gonna do dumb things like hold hands through the daisies going ''tra-la-la!''"''
7	-->-- ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "Goodbye Iowa"
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9	A type of walk where the character swings their arms back and forth while hopping lightly from foot to foot. This is a visual cue indicating that the character is innocent, carefree, and young. If the person skipping is older than a child, this may indicate that they're immature or behaving unusually (perhaps they are a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}).
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11	Characters that walk like this are most likely a CheerfulChild or a GenkiGirl. If it is not the character’s default walk then it is sign of joyousness. It is almost always done exclusively by [[AlwaysFemale females]] because FemalesAreMoreInnocent (and it is kind of effeminate to begin with). Bonus points for [[NotSoInnocentWhistle whistling]] while doing this.
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13	Related to GirlyRun.
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16	!!Examples:
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18	[[AC: AnimeAndManga]]
19	* [[CheerfulChild Sealand]] of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' does this during one of the series' {{Christmas Episode}}s, while fantasizing about the presents he wants from Santa Claus.
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21	[[AC: ComicBooks]]
22	* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': The Smurfette often does this when she joyfully has a walk in the forest, in various albums of the series.
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24	[[AC: FanWorks]]
25	* ''Fanfic/MiseryLovesCompany'': [[spoiler: After being [[DeathOfPersonality mentally rewritten]] [[FakeMemories into Hecate's new daughter]], Gaz happily skips down the sidewalk to go to the store and buy some groceries for her mom.]]
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27	[[AC: {{Film}}]]
28	%%%* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': Dorothy, the Tin Man, Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion.
29	* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'':
30	** Luna does this. It's never mentioned in the books, but it fits her CloudCuckoolander character nonetheless.
31	** [[DarkActionGirl Bellatrix]] also does this briefly, right after murdering a named character. In this case, it's an ironic inversion, tying into her characterization as a PsychopathicWomanchild.
32	%%%* Buddy does this in ''Film/{{Elf}}''.
33	%%%* ''Film/Zootopia'': Judy Hopps skips into the Zootopia train station right after she disembarks.
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36	[[AC: {{Literature}}]]
37	* ''The Bronze Horseman'' by Paullina Simons. Tatiana on several occasions, to the delight of her LoveInterest who's rather turned on by her innocence.
38	* Parodied in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', where Susan's charges Gawain and Twyla are {{Deliberately Cute Child}}ren who do things like skip around to try and be ingratiating towards grown-ups. Susan isn't fooled, and tells Gawain (who claims he was skipping when [[ItMakesSenseInContext he was really trying to provoke the imaginary bears his previous nanny told him eat kids who step on pavement cracks]]) "Real children don't go hoppity-skippity unless they're on drugs."
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40	[[AC: LiveActionTelevision]]
41	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The little girl in "Remembrance of the Daleks" skips around town [[spoiler:when she's not plugged into the Dalek battle computer]]. She's not exactly "innocent", though, but she appears to be, which is the point
42	* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Rascals" Guinan's reaction to being turned into a little girl due to a transporter malfunction is to skip merrily down the corridor.
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44	[[AC:{{Music}}]]
45	* Music/LindseyStirling's dances often include skips and jumps as she plays her violin, grinning.
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47	[[AC: ProfessionalWrestling]]
48	%%%% So she isn't, so why include it? Is it Kalfaybee?
49	%%%* [[Wrestling/ChickBusters AJ]] does this. She's not innocent.
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51	[[AC: VideoGames]]
52	* ''VideoGame/AlbaAWildlifeAdventure'': Alba often skips when running for prolonged periods, showing her cheerfulness and earnestness.
53	* ''VideoGame/RhapsodyAMusicalAdventure'': Princess Kururu from the ''Marl Kingdom ''series does this when she about to sing a song with her best friend.
54	%%%* Cream the Rabbit walks like this in ''VideoGame/SonicBattle''.
55	%%%* Tiny Kong walks and runs like this in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', but she does not do it while she tiptoes.
56	%%%* This is Princess Peach's walk cycle in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games since ''Brawl''.
57	%%%* Roll does this in ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp!'' after saving the day.
58	* In ''VideoGame/LightningLegendDaigoNoDaibouken'', Yuki Shirogane, the CheerfulChild of this FightingGame, walks this way during the storyline sequences.
59	%%%* Laura from ''VideoGame/SilentHill2''.
60	%%%* Gwen in presearing of ''VideoGame/GuildWars''.
61	* ''VideoGame/JumpSuperStars'': One of [[Manga/DeathNote Misa Amane's]] supports in ''Jump Ultimate Stars'' has her doing this. If an opponent attacks her, the innocent gesture summons Rem who inflicts the [[YouAreAlreadyDead death timer]] effect on them.
62	%%%* A rare male example is Ebisumaru from ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon''. Some games (The Super Famicom ones mainly) have him skipping as a walking animation.
63	* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' [[LittleRedFightingHood B.B. Hood]] does this for her forward movement, [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident however]] [[CreepyChild she]] [[AxCrazy is]] [[PsychoForHire anything]] ''[[TheFakeCutie but]]'' [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour innocent]].
64	* [[LittleMissBadass Annie]] from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' moves like this. She certainly ''seems'' innocent enough- and to be fair, she probably doesn't really see the harm in [[PlayingWithFire introducing you to her]] [[BearsAreBadNews bear Tibbers]] if you get in her way.
65	** [[AnimateInanimateObject Gwen]] has this as her running animation, as she's an animated doll who represents her creator's youthful idealism before it was taken from her.
66	* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', children can do this. Some Sims can do it in adulthood if they have enough playful points. Oddly enough, they do it with a very stoic face.
67	%%%* Pinocchio does this in the video games of the movie.
68	* Proof that you can make this terrifying: the ''Pyro'' does this in the "Meet The Pyro" video for ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' [[spoiler:as it cavorts through the candy-colored wonderland it sees the battlefield being]]. The sheer contrast of this with its murderous activities is nightmarish.
69	%%%* Janice from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' has this as her running animation.
70	* Dragunov from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' of all people has this as his ''7'' winpose and he hums a little ditty to go along with it.
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72	[[AC: WebVideo]]
73	* ''WebVideo/YourMovieSucksDotOrg'': Adam lampshades this trope in his review of ''Cool Cat Saves the Kids''.
74	---> ''Adam'': ♫ I'm a child and I like to skip, I don't walk normally because I'm a child! ♫
75	* Subverted by [[DarkActionGirl Neo]] from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', who often skips around because she's a PsychopathicWomanchild who has never really grown up. The most notable is her skipping around in the aftermath of [[spoiler:the Monstra's destruction]], utterly uncaring as to its consequences because [[ItsAllAboutMe she got what she wanted]].
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77	[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
78	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Pinkie Pie's usual gait is the quadrupedal version of this trope: pronking (hopping up and down with all four legs) around with small sproing sound effects.
79	%%%* Charlotte from ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends''. Only in the TV show.
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81	[[AC: Real Life]]
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83	* In his book ''Travels with Charley,'' Creator/JohnSteinbeck commented on this trope when he saw Ruby Bridges, a young black girl going to integrate a formerly all-white public school all by herself in 1960 while surrounded by jeering white crowds.
84	-->''The big marshals stood her on the curb and a jangle of jeering shrieks went up from behind the barricades. The little girl did not look at the howling crowd but from the side the whites of her eyes showed like those of a frightened fawn. The men turned her around like a doll, and then the strange procession moved up the broad walk toward the school, and the child was even more a mite because the men were so big. Then the girl made a curious hop, and I think I know what it was. I think in her whole life she had not gone ten steps without skipping, but now in the middle of her first skip the weight bore her down and her little round feet took measured, reluctant steps between the tall guards. Slowly they climbed the steps and entered the school.''
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