Scamper \Scam"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scampered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scampering}.] [OF. escamper to escape, to save one's self; L. ex from + campus the field (sc. of battle). See {Camp}, and cf. {Decamp}, {Scamp}, n., {Shamble}, v. t.] To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. --Macaulay.
The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse. --S. Sharpe.
Scamper \Scam"per\, n. A scampering; a hasty flight.
Her two pet Maltese dogs, Sophie and Tati, scamper in to bark hello.
Unruly children scamper about colorful gardens inside high fences.
Skeptical of those watching him, he spent almost an hour stepping back and forth from his enclosed shelter before he seemed secure enough to run atop his hill, scamper for food and begin ripping down tree limbs.
The notorious near-nudes scamper and scurry and squeal here and there in Titania's thrall. Their faces and bodies are powdered white, and they brandish lasso-like ribbons, which they spin round themselves when they perform their jaunty little jigs.
Visitors from Jordan and Israel, still technically at war with each other, scamper side by side up, down and around walls and mazes that cover Pharaon Island.
But the gorillas scamper away when they sense a human being approach.
On the road from Xichang, women wash clothes in streams, water buffalo pull wooden plows through rice paddies, and barefoot children scamper around mud-baked houses.
They scamper, form rings, laugh (and are terrible, as The Immortal Hour so acutely observed).