scamper
Americanverb (used without object)
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to run or go hastily or quickly.
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to run playfully about, as a child.
noun
verb
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to run about playfully
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(often foll by through) to hurry quickly through (a place, task, book, etc)
noun
Other Word Forms
- scamperer noun
Etymology
Origin of scamper
Example Sentences
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A smart kick from Smith switched play to Tom Roebuck, and the Sale wing showed deft footwork to scamper in on the stroke of half-time.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
Conflagrations abound—in one, a pair of rabbits anxiously scamper across a road to outrun the flames.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Orchards, wildernesses and bowers abound in her fiction, where her heroines contemplate curated views or scamper across fields and over stiles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
A mammoth fourth game saw seven deuces and Maria saving two break points for 3-1, before a brilliant scamper to a drop shot in the next allowed her to go a double break up.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2025
They scamper out of the room holding hands.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
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