Synonyms of the word scamper


SCAMPERHASTE - HURRY - RUN - RUSH - RUSHING - SCRAMBLE - SCURRY - SCUTTLE - SKITTER

scamper

  • n. A quick, light run.
  • v. (intransitive) To run quickly and lightly, especially in a playful manner or in an undignified manner.

haste

  • n. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
  • n. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
  • v. (transitive) To urge onward; to hasten.
  • v. (intransitive) To move with haste.

hurry

  • n. Rushed action.
  • n. Urgency.
  • n. (sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster…
  • v. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
  • v. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
  • v. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
  • v. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

run

  • v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
  • v. (fluids) To flow.
  • v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
  • v. (social) To carry out an activity.
  • v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
  • v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
  • v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
  • v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
  • v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
  • v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
  • v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
  • v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
  • v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
  • v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
  • v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
  • v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
  • v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
  • v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
  • v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
  • v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
  • v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
  • v. To have growth or development.
  • v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
  • v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
  • v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
  • v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
  • n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
  • n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
  • n. A pleasure trip.
  • n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
  • n. Migration (of fish).
  • n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  • n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
  • n. A (regular) trip or route.
  • n. The route taken while running or skiing.
  • n. The distance sailed by a ship.
  • n. A voyage.
  • n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
  • n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
  • n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
  • n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
  • n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
  • n. A trial.
  • n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
  • n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
  • n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
  • n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
  • n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
  • n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
  • n. Any sudden large demand for something.
  • n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
  • n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
  • n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
  • n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
  • n. (cricket) A point scored.
  • n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
  • n. Unrestricted use of.
  • n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
  • n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
  • n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
  • n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
  • n. A pair or set of millstones.
  • n. (video games) A playthrough.
  • n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
  • n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
  • n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
  • n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
  • adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
  • adj. Cast in a mould.
  • adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
  • adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

rush

  • n. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems…
  • n. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
  • n. The merest trifle; a straw.
  • n. A sudden forward motion.
  • n. A surge.
  • n. General haste.
  • n. A rapid, noisy flow.
  • n. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
  • n. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
  • n. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
  • n. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
  • n. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
  • n. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
  • n. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
  • v. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
  • v. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
  • v. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
  • v. (military) To swiftly attach to without warning.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing…
  • v. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
  • v. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
  • adj. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

rushing

  • v. present participle of rush.
  • n. A rapid surging motion.

scramble

  • interj. (Britain) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that…
  • v. (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
  • v. (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
  • v. (transitive) To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
  • v. (transitive, military) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to…
  • v. (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
  • v. (intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
  • v. (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
  • v. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize…
  • n. A rush or hurry.
  • n. (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
  • n. A motocross race.
  • n. Any frantic period of activity.

scurry

  • v. To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
  • n. A dash.

scuttle

  • n. A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
  • n. A broad, shallow basket.
  • n. (obsolete, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.
  • n. A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open…
  • n. (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for…
  • v. (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander…
  • v. (transitive, by extension, in figurative use) Undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or…
  • v. (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
  • n. A quick pace; a short run.

skitter

  • v. (intransitive) To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
  • v. (transitive) To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals;…
  • n. (also figuratively) A skittering movement.
  • v. (Scotland, Northern England, transitive) To cause to have diarrhea.
  • v. (Scotland, Northern England, intransitive) To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.
  • n. (Scotland, Northern England, uncountable) Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin…

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