scurrying
scurrying is the present participle and gerund of scurry.
Meaning of scurry
Verb
scurry (third-person singular simple present scurries, present participle scurrying, simple past and past participle scurried)
- To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
- Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack.2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian
- Synonyms:
- scamper
Noun
scurrying (plural scurryings)
- The motion of something that scurries.
- Archivists and librarians are the unsung worker ants whose scurryings make books such as this one possible.2007, Charlotte Sleigh, Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology
Forms of scurrying
| plural | scurryings |
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Origin of scurrying
From scurry + -ing.
Phrases with scurrying
Questions about scurrying
- What does scurrying mean?
- Scurrying means the motion of something that scurries.
- What is scurrying the present participle and gerund of?
- Scurrying is the present participle and gerund of scurry.
- What part of speech is scurrying?
- Scurrying is a noun.
- What is the plural of scurrying?
- The plural of scurrying is scurryings.
Words near scurrying in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: scurrying (page history and authors); scurry (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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