verb
- to move lightly and quickly across a surface, often with small bouncing or sliding motions
- to skip or bounce along a surface, especially water
Examples
- The mouse skittered across the kitchen floor.
- Leaves skittered down the sidewalk in the autumn wind.
- The stone skittered across the pond’s surface before sinking.
- Crabs skittered away when we approached the tide pool.
- The cat’s claws skittered on the hardwood floor as it ran.
- Raindrops skittered across the car’s windshield.