scamper
to run or go hastily or quickly.
to run playfully about, as a child.
a scampering; a quick run.
Origin of scamper
1Words Nearby scamper
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How to use scamper in a sentence
Sauteur d’Alfort rabbits aren’t the only animal to adopt an odd scamper if there’s a mutation to this gene, known as RORB.
A gene defect may make rabbits do handstands instead of hop | Erin Garcia de Jesús | March 25, 2021 | Science NewsWith faces painted and bandannas wrapped around their heads, pro-Morsi kids scamper around the Rabaa mosque sit-in.
The children scamper around the empty clinic lobby in tiaras, filling the place with laughter.
In Wichita, the Ground Zero of the Abortion War, a New Clinic Rises | Allison Yarrow | January 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen fighting flares over Gaza, world leaders and pundits scamper to the same old and feeble solution: a ceasefire.
Hamas Bears Lion’s Share of Blame for Israel-Gaza Tensions | Leslie H. Gelb | November 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTStill, they scamper after their generalissimo in the end, and meanwhile he is much too dignified to look back.
Spanish Life in Town and Country | L. Higgin and Eugne E. Street
A great scamper ensued, as you may imagine, and then from each German trench burst out a heavy rifle fire.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieHerds of deer scamper across its grassy slopes, and afford excellent stalking to the hospitable owner and his guests.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.But how those astounded artillery men—those of them who could run at all—did scamper out of there.
"Shiloh" as Seen by a Private Soldier | Warren OlneyThere was a quick scamper of feet as Will stepped out, then silence!
The Call of the Beaver Patrol | V. T. Sherman
British Dictionary definitions for scamper
/ (ˈskæmpə) /
to run about playfully
(often foll by through) to hurry quickly through (a place, task, book, etc)
the act of scampering
Origin of scamper
1Derived forms of scamper
- scamperer, noun
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