as in to trot
to go at a pace faster than a walk
the child scampered off to play
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Recent Examples of scamper
That allowed Bogaerts to score and Cronenworth to scamper to third.
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
Cassian, however, scampered away, and likely never came to know why this stranger harbored such a deeply personal vendetta.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 May 2025
In the Yankees' 11-5 win Monday, Grisham hit a deep fly ball to center field, and Rodríguez scampered back to the wall and jumped to try and make the play.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2025
On the walls are trellis-like sculptures with animals such as cats and rabbits scampering in and out of the bars.
—Alina Tugend, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
Cassian, however, scampered away, and likely never came to know why this stranger harbored such a deeply personal vendetta.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 May 2025
In the Yankees' 11-5 win Monday, Grisham hit a deep fly ball to center field, and Rodríguez scampered back to the wall and jumped to try and make the play.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2025
On the walls are trellis-like sculptures with animals such as cats and rabbits scampering in and out of the bars.
—Alina Tugend, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scamper
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Watch extremely rare footage of Sierra Nevada red fox Video footage shared by Robbins shows two different foxes with grey and white fur, with one wearing a tracking collar while wandering around the rocks during the day and trotting into the night.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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Former coach Doug MacLean, 20 years later, still recalls a postgame report given him one night as a team employee trotted toward him.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2025
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The Patriots throttled down with a pre-planned walkthrough Friday, where players took the field for 75 minutes under a blazing sun and jogged through a variety of drills over their third training camp practice.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
25 July 2025
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Vigorous physical exercise includes running, jogging or going to a fitness class, according to HHS.—
Renée Onque,
CNBC,
23 July 2025
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The chef retired a few years ago, but his son Hiroyuki Sakamoto is running the kitchen now.—
Amber Gibson,
Travel + Leisure,
15 July 2025
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Black flies can travel for miles and can be found anywhere there are running streams or rivers nearby, even in urban areas.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
15 July 2025
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Ineffably, Renko’s qualities of solidity and rebelliousness bring my father back to me, and the whole 11-book series, set mostly in Russia (with excursions to Cuba and the Arctic Circle), is a galloping wonder, full of apparatchiks, spies, oligarchs, gangsters, and murders galore.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
16 July 2025
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Costa Rica offers the stuff of vacation advertisements: horses galloping on a white-sand beach, surfers crouched in an enormous barrel wave, sea turtles nesting near the ocean.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 July 2025
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Archer’s first delivery, timed at 87.4mph, hurried the left-handed Jaiswal.—
Paul Newman,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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The scene from election night On June 24, the night of the most recent meeting, members hurried into the Picnic House to hear the results of the votes.—
Vanessa Romo,
NPR,
7 July 2025
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“Scamper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scamper. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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