: 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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Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
Experience the Eiffel Tower Your kids will most certainly want to scamper up the nearly 1,100-foot-high Eiffel Tower (ideally without the crowds).
—Elissa Garay, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 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
Two plays later, Hawks running back Renard Thomas scampered in for a 10-yard TD and with the PAT deadlocked the contest at 34-34.
—Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
Experience the Eiffel Tower Your kids will most certainly want to scamper up the nearly 1,100-foot-high Eiffel Tower (ideally without the crowds).
—Elissa Garay, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 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 9 Sep. 2025.
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