0 present participle of scamper
1 When small children and animals scamper, they run with small quick steps:
You see the youngsters scampering off the playground, which is a field, back to the little school to put themselves under the school desks.
I hope that we shall not indulge in this kind of scampering any longer.
I know of few things more beautiful than rabbits scampering across the fields fairly late in the evening.
The lovely lady, the business man, the brilliant student, the scampering little girl have vanished, utterly consumed in the furnace of the flash.
I have never understood why polytechnics are scampering for a geographical location in their title.
Our system could hardly be better designed to ensure that we foul up, because we are rushing and scampering at the wrong times.
There will be no more scampering of the children who go to press buttons.
There is no time to go to the police authorities, so they go scampering about to neighbours and collect a few pounds to clear the rent, and they clear it.
