scamper
verb [intransitive]- + adv./prep.
(especially of children or small animals )尤指儿童或小动物 to move quickly with short light steps 欢快地奔走;蹦蹦跳跳 Oxford Collocations DictionaryScamper is used with these nouns as the subject:- dog
- squirrel
Word Originlate 17th cent. (in the sense ‘run away’): probably from scamp ‘do something inadequately’.