skittered

Body camera footage recorded by one of the officers on the scene shows police and locals trying and failing to catch the slippery animal as he skittered around the street like a crafty running back dodging tacklers.

We skittered on the steel deck.

If her heart had its way, it would have skittered out of her chest and started vacation without her.

Bezos, eager to score prominent coverage of his fledgling company, “skittered around … like a frenetic mongoose,” Swisher recalled in her new book, published Tuesday under the title “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story.”

Impatient, Wenders yelled “Go away!” and the crew skittered to hide behind a row of bicycles.