Synonyms of the word

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…

glide

• v. (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
• v. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
• v. (transitive) To cause to glide.
• v. (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
• n. The act of gliding.
• n. (phonology) Semivowel.
• n. (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant…
• n. A bird, the glede or kite.
• n. A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.

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.

scamper

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

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.

skim

• v. (intransitive) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
• v. (transitive) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface…
• v. To hasten along with superficial attention.
• v. To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
• v. (transitive) to throw an object so it bounces on water (skimming stones).
• v. (intransitive) to ricochet.
• v. (transitive) to read quickly, skipping some detail.
• v. (transitive) to scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface.
• v. (transitive) to clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil…
• v. (transitive) to clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream…
• adj. (of milk) Having lowered fat content.
• n. A cursory reading, skipping the details.
• n. (informal) Skim milk.

skip

• v. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
• v. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
• v. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
• v. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
• v. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
• v. To place an item in a skip.
• v. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
• v. (transitive, informal) To leave.
• v. To leap lightly over.
• v. To jump rope.
• n. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
• n. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
• n. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
• n. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
• n. (radio) skywave propagation.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back…
• n. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.
• n. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
• n. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
• n. A beehive.
• n. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
• n. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
• n. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

throw

• v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
• v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
• v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
• v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
• v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
• v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
• v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
• v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
• v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
• v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
• v. (transitive) To imprison.
• v. To organize an event, especially a party.
• v. To roll (a die or dice).
• v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
• v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
• v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
• v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
• v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
• v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
• v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
• v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
• v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
• n. The flight of a thrown object.
• n. The act of throwing something.
• n. One's ability to throw.
• n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
• n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
• n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
• n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
• n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
• v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
• n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
• n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
• n. Misspelling of throe.

twitch

• n. A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
• n. (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
• n. (farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over…
• n. (physiology, countable) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal…
• v. (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
• v. (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
• v. (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
• n. couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed).