Verb

• S: (v) scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle (to move about or proceed hurriedly) "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"
• S: (v) skitter (glide easily along a surface)
• S: (v) skim, skip, skitter (cause to skip over a surface) "Skip a stone across the pond"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• sentence frame
• S: (v) skitter (twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water)