skittering

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Djrum, the project of British musician Felix Manuel, issued “Under Tangled Silence,” an icily pretty record that combined jazzy and neoclassical piano flourishes with fleet and skittering drum programming borrowed from ’90s styles like jungle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

Be careful of fawns and other skittering critters as you drive.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

I accidentally kick one sending it skittering across the floor, and causing a brief moment of excitement before I apologetically explain it was me and not a ghost.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2024

The skittering, chiming percussion boiled over into a stomp-around jam, hitting like a horns-blasting march down Beale Street.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

For the long-absent Nutsawoo was there too, chattering and skittering joyously from one of Penelope’s shoulders to the other.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood