0 When small children and animals scamper, they run with small quick steps:
1 (esp. of small children and animals) to run with small, quick steps:
They scamper across the floor in die evening, when the sound of busy hands and feet has died away.
Holdgate's career was so varied and packed with action that the book becomes a scamper through the corridors of power.
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.
If, however, an air raid comes, people will probably scamper here and there.
We should not scamper through a debate on children.
Even when people do go into hospitals, they are unduly scampered out, back to the slums from which they came.