: a playful or hurried run or movement
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Verb
The kids were scampering around the yard.
A mouse scampered across the floor.
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Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2025
The flood of fowl scampered up a hill to a cluster of empty food bowls.
—Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Sure, Amelia gets to do some cool stuff like scamper on all fours toward a target, scramble down a wall like a spider, rip the head off one poor unfortunate and neutralize entire tactical units with her dazzling fight skills.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
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Verb
The paddlers, all youths from Indigenous communities in the Americas, scampered off their kayaks and raced across the sandbar, ceremoniously ending the trip by dipping their fingers in the choppy sea water.
—Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2025
The flood of fowl scampered up a hill to a cluster of empty food bowls.
—Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
Millie Schafer exits her back door, descends her deck stairs and scampers down a set of wooden steps on a backyard hillside, bracing herself on a tree trunk.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Sure, Amelia gets to do some cool stuff like scamper on all fours toward a target, scramble down a wall like a spider, rip the head off one poor unfortunate and neutralize entire tactical units with her dazzling fight skills.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
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“Scamper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scamper. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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