diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 5c85b77a4fe5d..fc5308741d544 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ New library functions
 * Added `Base.hasproperty` and `Base.hasfield` ([#28850]).
 * One argument `!=(x)`, `>(x)`, `>=(x)`, `<(x)`, `<=(x)` has been added for currying,
   similar to the existing `==(x)` and `isequal(x)` methods ([#30915]).
-* `skipnothing(itr)` function returns an iterator skipping `nothing` values ([#30549])
+* `skip(T, itr)` function returns an iterator skipping values of type T ([#30549]).
 
 Standard library changes
 ------------------------
diff --git a/base/exports.jl b/base/exports.jl
index 3f3c14750c826..b22774b03a424 100644
--- a/base/exports.jl
+++ b/base/exports.jl
@@ -671,10 +671,10 @@ export
     coalesce,
     ismissing,
     missing,
+    skip,
     skipmissing,
     something,
     isnothing,
-    skipnothing,
 
 # time
     sleep,
diff --git a/test/some.jl b/test/some.jl
index 0bdd3f8192670..e368c7b27c5dc 100644
--- a/test/some.jl
+++ b/test/some.jl
@@ -98,87 +98,3 @@ using Base: notnothing
 # isnothing()
 @test !isnothing(1)
 @test isnothing(nothing)
-
-# skipnothing()
-@testset "skipnothing" begin
-    x = skipnothing([1, 2, nothing, 4])
-    @test eltype(x) === Int
-    @test collect(x) == [1, 2, 4]
-    @test collect(x) isa Vector{Int}
-
-    x = skipnothing([1  2; nothing 4])
-    @test eltype(x) === Int
-    @test collect(x) == [1, 2, 4]
-    @test collect(x) isa Vector{Int}
-
-    x = collect(skipnothing([nothing]))
-    @test eltype(x) === Union{}
-    @test isempty(collect(x))
-    @test collect(x) isa Vector{Union{}}
-
-    x = collect(skipnothing(Union{Int, Nothing}[]))
-    @test eltype(x) === Int
-    @test isempty(collect(x))
-    @test collect(x) isa Vector{Int}
-
-    x = skipnothing([nothing, nothing, 1, 2, nothing, 4, nothing, nothing])
-    @test eltype(x) === Int
-    @test collect(x) == [1, 2, 4]
-    @test collect(x) isa Vector{Int}
-
-    x = skipnothing(v for v in [nothing, 1, nothing, 2, 4])
-    @test eltype(x) === Any
-    @test collect(x) == [1, 2, 4]
-    @test collect(x) isa Vector{Int}
-
-    @testset "mapreduce" begin
-        # Vary size to test splitting blocks with several configurations of nothing values
-        for T in (Int, Float64),
-            A in (rand(T, 10), rand(T, 1000), rand(T, 10000))
-            if T === Int
-                @test sum(A) === sum(skipnothing(A)) ===
-                    reduce(+, skipnothing(A)) === mapreduce(identity, +, skipnothing(A))
-            else
-                @test sum(A) ≈ sum(skipnothing(A)) ===
-                    reduce(+, skipnothing(A)) === mapreduce(identity, +, skipnothing(A))
-            end
-            @test mapreduce(cos, *, A) ≈ mapreduce(cos, *, skipnothing(A))
-
-            B = Vector{Union{T,Nothing}}(A)
-            replace!(x -> rand(Bool) ? x : nothing, B)
-            if T === Int
-                @test sum(collect(skipnothing(B))) === sum(skipnothing(B)) ===
-                    reduce(+, skipnothing(B)) === mapreduce(identity, +, skipnothing(B))
-            else
-                @test sum(collect(skipnothing(B))) ≈ sum(skipnothing(B)) ===
-                    reduce(+, skipnothing(B)) === mapreduce(identity, +, skipnothing(B))
-            end
-            @test mapreduce(cos, *, collect(skipnothing(A))) ≈ mapreduce(cos, *, skipnothing(A))
-
-            # Test block full of nothing values
-            B[1:length(B)÷2] .= nothing
-            if T === Int
-                @test sum(collect(skipnothing(B))) == sum(skipnothing(B)) ==
-                    reduce(+, skipnothing(B)) == mapreduce(identity, +, skipnothing(B))
-            else
-                @test sum(collect(skipnothing(B))) ≈ sum(skipnothing(B)) ==
-                    reduce(+, skipnothing(B)) == mapreduce(identity, +, skipnothing(B))
-            end
-
-            @test mapreduce(cos, *, collect(skipnothing(A))) ≈ mapreduce(cos, *, skipnothing(A))
-        end
-
-        # Patterns that exercize code paths for inputs with 1 or 2 non-nothing values
-        @test sum(skipnothing([1, nothing, nothing, nothing])) === 1
-        @test sum(skipnothing([nothing, nothing, nothing, 1])) === 1
-        @test sum(skipnothing([1, nothing, nothing, nothing, 2])) === 3
-        @test sum(skipnothing([nothing, nothing, nothing, 1, 2])) === 3
-
-        for n in 0:3
-            itr = skipnothing(Vector{Union{Int,Nothing}}(fill(nothing, n)))
-            @test sum(itr) == reduce(+, itr) == mapreduce(identity, +, itr) === 0
-            @test_throws ArgumentError reduce(x -> x/2, itr)
-            @test_throws ArgumentError mapreduce(x -> x/2, +, itr)
-        end
-    end
-end