Driving a lawn mower, a four wheeler, or other machine as close as you can to a wet or swampy area without getting stuck. You get stuck, you lose.
I played skin the dragon on my 4 wheeler next to the swamp and lost. They needed a tractor to get me out of the mud! Sometimes you skin the dragon and sometimes the dragon skins you!
2. It can be used also to refer to that elusive first beautiful Marijuana euphoria one has experienced in their 1st MJ smoke that constantly eludes one thereafter and one continues to "chase the green dragon" but never catches it.