0 a soldier who is involved in a short fight with a small number of other soldiers, which is happening away from the main area of fighting in a war:
They confronted enemy skirmishers.
The firing between our skirmishers and the enemy was rapid, but of short duration.
More cavalry poured in to drive the surviving enemy skirmishers back to the river.
Javelins thrown by the skirmishers merely bounced off the polished mail of the Knights.
Light cavalry were used as scouts, skirmishers or outflankers.
From the third century BC, the Roman legion added a skirmisher type of soldier to its tactical formation.
He said it was quite wrong that individual enterprises should go on conducting their activities like individual skirmishers.
Line regiments fired in volleys, but skirmishers fired at will, taking careful aim at targets.
He then goes on to lead one of the teams of skirmishers sent into the jungles.
