scamper
Syllables: scamp·erUK/ˈskæmpə//ˈskæmpɚ/
scamper noun: a quick, light run.
Noun (1)
scamper (plural scampers)
- A quick, light run.
Verb
scamper (third-person singular simple present scampers, present participle scampering, simple past and past participle scampered)
- To run lightly and quickly, especially in a playful or undignified manner.
- The dog scampered after the squirrel.
- [W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney."1791 (first performance), [Frederic] Reynolds, Notoriety: A Comedy, Dublin: […] P. Byrne, […], published 1792, →OCLC, Act IV, scene [i], page 43
- Synonyms:
- scurry, ambulate, navigate, pedestrianize, raik
Noun (2)
scamper (plural scampers)
scamper meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
scamper in Urdu
- بھگدڑ, چھوڑ بھاگنا
scamper in Bengali
- দ্রুত, চঞ্চলভাবে দৌড়ানো
scamper in Malayalam
- scuttle, scurry, dart
- വിരണ്ടോടുക, പേടിച്ചോടുക, മണ്ടിപ്പായുക, പാഞ്ഞുകളയുക, പരക്കം പായുക, ധൃതിയായി പായുക
scamper in Kannada
- ದಿಕ್ಕಾಪಾಲಾಗಿ ಓಡು, ಚೆಲ್ಲಾಪಿಲ್ಲಿಯಾಗು, ಎಗರಾಡು, ಸಿಕ್ಕಾಪಟ್ಟೆ ಓಡು, ಪುಟಪುಟನೆ ಓಡು
Examples of scamper in a sentence
- And so saying he scampered off to the hill, to the amusement of honest Plat; and it is likely lost no time in making his advances to the young widow.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 198:
- Three minutes later, Luka Modric scampered down the right, clipped a cross to the near post and Ronaldo’s clipped finish gave the remainder of the match an air of inevitability.2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juve”, in The Guardian (London):
Synonyms of scamper
Forms of scamper
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | scampers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | scampers |
| present participle | scampering |
| past participle | scampered |
| past | scampered |
Origin of scamper
First attested in 1687. Origin uncertain, but possibly from Dutch schamperen, from Old French escamper, from Vulgar Latin *excampāre.
From scamp + -er.
Words formed from scamper
Phrases with scamper
Words that rhyme with scamper
Questions about scamper
- What does scamper mean?
- Scamper means a quick, light run.
- What is scamper in Urdu?
- Scamper in Urdu is بھگدڑ, چھوڑ بھاگنا. See Scamper meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use scamper in a sentence?
- And so saying he scampered off to the hill, to the amusement of honest Plat; and it is likely lost no time in making his advances to the young widow.
- What part of speech is scamper?
- Scamper can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce scamper?
- Scamper is pronounced /ˈskæmpə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of scamper?
- The plural of scamper is scampers.
Words near scamper in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: scamper (page history and authors); scamper (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scamper (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scamper (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); scamper (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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