Jim Norton

The image people have of comedians staring defiantly over a stationary line of good taste is simply inaccurate. We don't approach this line, put our toes over it arrogantly and then scamper back to safety. The line doesn't exist.

American Comedian

Michelle Williams

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

American Actress

Often used to describe the movements of small animals or children, implying playfulness and lightness.

Associated Animals

Implies a sudden or swift action, often to escape something or for fun.

Quick Movement

Most suitable for casual or informal language, not typically used in formal writing.

Informal Context

 same spot and they were landing about one and a half meters from the ground and i thought to myself i've got an idea so i snuck down hid behind the tree waited for the squirrel to come down and land on it and then scamper up the tree and then before the next one could follow it i went out to the front of the tree and

This Platypus Can Glow...

 which was -- he remembered as a kid reading Flash Gordon comic books, and he said that when Flash Gordon would come to an abyss, he would shoot what today would be a kind of a light saber. He would shoot his light saber across the abyss, making a blade of light, and then scamper across on this blade of light.

Steven Strogatz: How...

 Most hazardous environment I'd ever seen, and I was back with a guy, lashing the pots down. So I'm 40 feet off the deck, which is like looking down at the top of your shoe, you know, and it's doing this in the ocean. Unspeakably dangerous. I scamper down, I go into the wheelhouse

Learning from dirty jobs...

 there are trees that have actually fallen that help us get across other places our scouts are chopping the trees down for us to get across as you can tell you know it calls for a little bit of a sense of balance and the guys would just scamper across these things like

The Unconquered:...

 if only at this early stage of its life that a stick insect actually runs the youngsters positively scamper up into the tree branches there they will take up their adult life of leisure well

Life of Insects PIPE...

 three years but eventually they hatch it's only at this early stage of its life that a stick insect actually runs the youngsters positively scamper up into the tree branches

Sir David Attenborough...

 The whole family! Mwira and his mother are almost the last ones to break cover and scamper over. Absolute confidence. Look!

Silverback Gorilla Stops...

 nothing is as easy as it looks one major challenge is working out which trees are safe to scamper up some are better than

Top 5 Funniest Animal...

 almost the last ones to break cover and scamper over absolute confident stick with all the youngsters across safely

5 Incredible Animals...

 last ones to break cover and scamper over absolute confidence luke with all the youngsters across safely chimanuka

Scamper

To run quickly or playfully.

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Associated Animals

Quick Movement

Informal Context

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