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Light-footed

Light-foot \Light"-foot`\ (l[imac]t"f[oo^]t`), Light-footed \Light"-foot`ed\, a. Having a light, springy step; moving lightly and nimbly; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Opposite of heavy-footed.
--Tennyson.

Wiktionary
light-footed
  1. fleet, swift, not plodding, capable of running spritely. v

  2. (en-pastlight-foot), ran.

WordNet
light-footed

adj. (of movement) having a light and springy step; "a light-footed girl" [ant: heavy-footed]

Usage examples of "light-footed".

After much praise, in which Gryphius joined, Birken inquired cautiously, as though asking his mentor for advice, whether it was seemly to couch a child that had died in the womb in so light-footed a verse form.

Cantra went up, light-footed as always, Rool Tiazan pacing silently at her side.

Fauns, accoupling with the Nymphs, formed light-footed bands that roamed the woods together.

Then Peter, with his light-footed animals, would go running and leaping down the mountain again till he reached Dorfli, and there he would give a shrill whistle through his fingers, whereupon all the owners of the goats would come out to fetch home the animals that belonged to them.

Her plaits bumped on her back as she ran light-footed down to the ferry.

The Czar of Russia paid deep and devoted attention to a light-footed Geisha girl, while the Mikado and Folly, a jingling thing in bells and abbreviated skirts, romped together.

Of course, there were many light-footed, shrill-voiced American girls, handsome, lifeless-looking English ditto, and a few plain but piquante French demoiselles, likewise the usual set of traveling young gentlemen who disported themselves gaily, while mammas of all nations lined the walls and smiled upon them benignly when they danced with their daughters.

She hated them, these smiling, light-footed strangers, these proud fools who took pride in something they had lost, seeming to be proud that they had lost it.