diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index 55defb77..ca41bef3 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -464,6 +464,18 @@ Description
     Number of seconds to sleep before each download.
 
 
+extractor.*.sleep-skip
+----------------------
+Type
+    |Duration|_
+Default
+    ``0``
+Description
+    Number of seconds to sleep after
+    `skipping <extractor.*.skip_>`__
+    a file download.
+
+
 extractor.*.sleep-extractor
 ---------------------------
 Type
diff --git a/docs/gallery-dl.conf b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
index 25eea53b..36bb7113 100644
--- a/docs/gallery-dl.conf
+++ b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
         "metadata-version"  : null,
 
         "sleep"          : 0,
+        "sleep-skip"     : 0,
         "sleep-request"  : 0,
         "sleep-extractor": 0,
         "sleep-429"      : 60.0,
diff --git a/docs/options.md b/docs/options.md
index f49aa029..05b3ed04 100644
--- a/docs/options.md
+++ b/docs/options.md
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@
     --sleep SECONDS             Number of seconds to wait before each download.
                                 This can be either a constant value or a range
                                 (e.g. 2.7 or 2.0-3.5)
+    --sleep-skip SECONDS        Number of seconds to wait after skipping a file
+                                download
     --sleep-request SECONDS     Number of seconds to wait between HTTP requests
                                 during data extraction
     --sleep-429 SECONDS         Number of seconds to wait when receiving a '429
diff --git a/gallery_dl/job.py b/gallery_dl/job.py
index 7a52bd6b..9d387a3e 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/job.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/job.py
@@ -533,12 +533,15 @@ class DownloadJob(Job):
                 callback(pathfmt)
         self.out.skip(pathfmt.path)
 
-        if self._skipexc:
+        if self._skipexc is not None:
             if self._skipftr is None or self._skipftr(pathfmt.kwdict):
                 self._skipcnt += 1
                 if self._skipcnt >= self._skipmax:
                     raise self._skipexc
 
+        if self.sleep_skip is not None:
+            self.extractor.sleep(self.sleep_skip(), "skip")
+
     def download(self, url):
         """Download 'url'"""
         if downloader := self.get_downloader(url[:url.find(":")]):
@@ -582,6 +585,7 @@ class DownloadJob(Job):
             pathfmt.set_directory(kwdict)
 
         self.sleep = util.build_duration_func(cfg("sleep"))
+        self.sleep_skip = util.build_duration_func(cfg("sleep-skip"))
         self.fallback = cfg("fallback", True)
         if not cfg("download", True):
             # monkey-patch method to do nothing and always return True
diff --git a/gallery_dl/option.py b/gallery_dl/option.py
index a47d8cd1..82efcc97 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/option.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/option.py
@@ -528,6 +528,11 @@ def build_parser():
               "This can be either a constant value or a range "
               "(e.g. 2.7 or 2.0-3.5)"),
     )
+    downloader.add_argument(
+        "--sleep-skip",
+        dest="sleep-skip", metavar="SECONDS", action=ConfigAction,
+        help=("Number of seconds to wait after skipping a file download"),
+    )
     downloader.add_argument(
         "--sleep-request",
         dest="sleep-request", metavar="SECONDS", action=ConfigAction,
diff --git a/gallery_dl/version.py b/gallery_dl/version.py
index 0dcb01a8..c7f643f3 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/version.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/version.py
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
 # published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
-__version__ = "1.31.1"
+__version__ = "1.31.2-dev"
 __variant__ = None