verb
- moved lightly and quickly across a surface, often with small bouncing or sliding motions
Usage: past tense of ‘skitter’
Examples
- The mouse skittered across the kitchen floor.
- Leaves skittered down the sidewalk in the wind.
- The stone skittered across the surface of the pond.
- A crab skittered sideways into its hole.
- The cat skittered away when the door slammed.
- Raindrops skittered across the car windshield.