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
Maye knocked out the Broncos by scampering all alone to his left on a third-down naked bootleg, Josh McDaniels’ best play-call on a day of bad weather and good defense.
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Andrew Callahan, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
Electric car technology favors light-weight little vehicles which can scamper around city and urban locations with perhaps two adults and two children on board.
—Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
After Carson Beck scampered for a score with 18 seconds left, Ole Miss had one last miraculous effort as Trinidad Chambliss threw a deep ball into the end zone.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 10 Jan. 2026
Underwood, who ran for 77 yards, scampered for a 5-yard touchdown run by diving to touch the pylon, giving Michigan its last lead at 27-24 with just under 11 minutes to go.
—CBS News, 1 Jan. 2026
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Andrew Callahan, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
Electric car technology favors light-weight little vehicles which can scamper around city and urban locations with perhaps two adults and two children on board.
—Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
After Carson Beck scampered for a score with 18 seconds left, Ole Miss had one last miraculous effort as Trinidad Chambliss threw a deep ball into the end zone.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 10 Jan. 2026
Underwood, who ran for 77 yards, scampered for a 5-yard touchdown run by diving to touch the pylon, giving Michigan its last lead at 27-24 with just under 11 minutes to go.
—CBS News, 1 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scamper
Verb
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Coyotes were seen trotting across the frozen Charles River yesterday.—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
3 Feb. 2026
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Mustafa said as the man trotted down the stairs, mumbling something—a prayer, a curse.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Perhaps that jogs their memory?—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Some of these shows will jog your memory, others will be discoveries.—
Laird Borrelli-Persson,
Vogue,
5 Feb. 2026
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Cisco says the platform is built to support massive AI clusters running training, inference, and real-time agentic workloads while improving efficiency and lowering operating costs.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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In September, the preliminary revision inferred that the US economy likely added about 911,000 fewer jobs than the jobs reports initially estimated for the 12-month period running from April 2024 through March 2025.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Darnold galloped over to Lock and interrupted the backup’s postgame interview.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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The commercial begins with a Clydesdale foal greeting the morning by galloping out of their stable into the fields.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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If the Pats can hit or hurry Darnold, that may be enough to yield an outcome as good as, if not better than, a sack.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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John Helmick hurried to book a flight to San Antonio from his home in Las Vegas after learning his former cross-country coach at Texas had entered the end-of-life stage of hospice care.—
Tom Orsborn,
San Antonio Express-News,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Scamper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scamper. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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