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 Ice crystals skittered across the plateau, catching in the curve of the sastrugi before blowing free. — Cree Lefavour, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026 Gu skittered off the first rail and toppled to her side, dashing her title hopes. — Joseph Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 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 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 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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The Off Campus duo, Emma Watson, Hunter Schafer, Chase Infiniti, and Tyriq Withers, who all scurried off together to continue the already-memorable night elsewhere.

— Kelsey Stewart, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2026
Daniels also could have scurried to his feet and spiked the ball because there were seven seconds remaining when he was tackled.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of scurried

Verb

Yellow caution tape fluttered in the wind as water poured into a room strewn with wooden debris, an upturned refrigerator and a television.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
But no sooner did the words leave his mouth than the man’s eyelids fluttered open.

— Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of fluttered

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Here is where the local bands played, where the members danced.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Advertisement Conversations swell through the room in waves, often prompted by Greaves himself, who was not just a filmmaker but also a poet and sculptor, a man who acted and danced.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

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