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# scamper

«scamper» in Mova's school dictionary: **to run quickly with short light steps, like a small…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (scamper, scampers, scampered, scampering); noun (scamper)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To scamper is to run quickly with short light steps, like a small animal or a child running off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scamper/#m1)

2) A scamper is a quick, light run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scamper/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories small animals or frightened creatures scamper off into holes or away out of sight

### examples

- The wolves had scampered off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scamper/#x1)
- The mice scampered away to their holes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scamper/#x2)
- She scampered out of sight, with all the mice after her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scamper/#x3)
- We had a scamper across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scamper/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scamper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scamper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.