In the Big Top Showroom section, after completing the space-themed fazerblast game, you are able to get into a locker the is blocked by a few mannequins, allowing you to move clockwise around Big Top rather than counterclockwise as is intended. Would this count as a skip? It isn't really bypassing anything and only saves probably 20 seconds, and it's not like I'm clipping through a wall or anything, but I don't want my skipless run to be disqualified because I wanted to cut a few seconds off my run. Any insight on this?

no that's not a skip unless you're missing something such as an entire area. And FYI there's a much faster way of doing that section in Skipless where you bait bigtop and go run past him I reccomend looking at other runs for that