SKITTERED Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

skittered

verb

past tense of skitter

as in scurried

to move quickly and lightly along a surface Dry leaves skittered over the sidewalk. Mice skittered across the floor.

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Recent Examples of skittered Iguanas skittered across the dirt; birds and insects filled the air with noise. — Brigid Washington, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2026 Gu skittered off the first rail and toppled to her side, dashing her title hopes. — Joseph Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026 Smaller critters — hermit crabs, lightning whelks and snails — skittered along the seafloor. — Max Chesnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026 But Pastrnak had already headed up ice and the puck skittered into no-man’s land. — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 24 Dec. 2025 Ice crystals skittered across the plateau, catching in the curve of the sastrugi before blowing free. — Cree Lefavour, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026 The two tuxedo cats skittered uneasily away from her, afraid of what kind of chaos this toddling creature would bring into their lives. — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 7 Feb. 2026 Bats were flipped, benches cleared, Toronto’s manager was ejected and throws skittered around PNC Park. — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025 Rumors of a Satanic curse on the event skittered around the Haight, so early on the morning of the 14th, Ginsberg, Snyder, and Alan Watts conducted a pradakshina, a Buddhist purification rite. — Dennis McNally, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025

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Pip scurried over to take a seat on my foot.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
Lee, who had extended his hitting streak to 16 games the at-bat before, scurried back to first base.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 9 June 2026

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Evans, who's also danced for Beyoncé, Ricky Martin, Cardi B and Bad Bunny, performed with Swift on The Eras Tour, which ran from March 2023 to December 2024.

— Edward Segarra, USA Today, 6 July 2026
The role of Bobby Child is acted, sung and especially danced by Will Burton, who has the kind magnetic star power that Goodspeed doesn’t often know what to do with.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2026

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