- present participle of scamper.
scampering
Example Sentences
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James Lankford, of Oklahoma, quickly confirmed that he hasn’t gotten a pair from the president before scampering up a set of stairs labeled “Senators Only.”
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
From the passenger seat, I often spotted rabbits fleeing down dirt roads and scampering under bushes, many joined by red-legged partridges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
A video of the wolf scampering on a road in the dark, illuminated by the headlights of a vehicle, was uploaded on social media.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026
Once Bran had known every stone of those buddings, inside and out; he had climbed them all, scampering up walls as easily as other boys ran down stairs.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
