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• v  to move about or proceed hurriedly
• v  glide easily along a surface
• v  cause to skip over a surface
• v  twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water

• His hands, swollen from arthritis, hardened by decades of immersion in darkroom chemicals, skitter over the keys, assaulting the same phrase again and again.
• While hunters searched he would skitter through tunnels, pop out of another opening and fire again.
• Real geckos skitter up walls, thanks to millions of tiny hairs on the bottom of each toe.

• scurry
• scamper
• scuttle
• skim
• skip

News & Articles

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• 'Falling Skies': Season 3 returns with horses, a baby and the French
  When you're an outnumbered and outgunned ragtag army taking on a vastly superior invading force, it helps to have powerful friends.That was the situation facing the American rebels battling the British during the Revolutionary War, when the French arrived to help save the day. And that's also the situation of the beleaguered humans fighting the alien Overlords and their Skitter minions for the ...
  June 9, 2013 - Zap2It
• 'Skitter Flutter' sound sculpture
  visual1sound0505: 'Skitter Flutter,' a sound installation by Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, opens May 10 at SeedSpace Gallery. At last fall’s Sound Crawl festival, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger premiered a composition she called “Arduino and Sax duet for robotic drummer.”
  June 8, 2013 - The Journal News

Quotes

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• Tod Machover in Media Newswire (press release)
  Machover wrote: "It has many layers that overlap and sometimes sound like they're moving in different directions, and the dynamic is created by the pull for those pieces to come together. The four players skitter and pull away from each other and...