skitter
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He should have used the nearby crosswalk, but there aren’t enough of those on the boulevard, so pedestrians routinely skitter and scoot across the street like they’re in a game of Frogger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
A little fuel and some high-frequency sparking makes the robot skitter across the ground.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023
Smaller than a mouse and about the weight of three pennies in the hand, the Dorset bats skitter across the cave walls or cling to one another for warmth.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023
That helped jar the puck loose to skitter over to Kotkaniemi for the near-post putaway at 3:58.
From Washington Times ● May 6, 2023
Ruby tried to skitter clear of the cloud, but it pursued her.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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