1. moving lightly and quickly across a surface, often with small rapid steps or in an unsteady manner
Usage: present participle of ‘skitter’

1. characterized by light, quick, unsteady movement

Examples

• The mouse was skittering across the kitchen floor.
• Leaves were skittering down the sidewalk in the wind.
• She heard something skittering in the attic above.
• The crab went skittering sideways into the rocks.
• His skittering footsteps echoed in the empty hallway.
• The skittering sound made her look up nervously.
• Pebbles came skittering down the steep hillside.