: a playful or hurried run or movement
Examples of scamper in a Sentence
Verb
The kids were scampering around the yard.
A mouse scampered across the floor.
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Tim Nelson, Architectural Digest, 31 Mar. 2025
Trent Alexander-Arnold’s lofted pass sent Salah scampering away down the right.
—James Pearce, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Byrefael Kubersky, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025
Being with friends and family gets despair to cower, shrivel, and scamper for the hidden dark corners of the room.
—Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
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If accommodations located on solid ground simply won’t do, scamper up to this French treehouse located about an hour’s drive west of Basel, Switzerland.
—Tim Nelson, Architectural Digest, 31 Mar. 2025
Trent Alexander-Arnold’s lofted pass sent Salah scampering away down the right.
—James Pearce, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
The animals—roughly 30,000 in all—groom themselves and their companions, dangle on swings, and scamper about on wooden beams hanging in their pens.
—Byrefael Kubersky, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025
Being with friends and family gets despair to cower, shrivel, and scamper for the hidden dark corners of the room.
—Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Scamper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scamper. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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