What is "skittering"

Usage examples of "skittering".

Archer fell twice, Tucker once, and the women stumbled into each other like skittering ducks before the shuttlepod took shape before them in the white fume.

Hoshi was just skittering like a bird across the ice, intent on their target.

Approval and something else glittered in his eyes--a something else that dazzled and sent her pulse skittering all over the place.

Roberta thought she heard something skittering inside and gulped involuntarily.

It was so quiet in the dormitory that a mouse could be heard skittering along the eaves.

Noises echoed around her: whispers and hisses, two snaps like rocks dropped from a height, a high-pitched giggle, the skittering of feet.

Sounds unfolded beneath the canopy of trees barely stirred by a lazy breeze: the breathing of the ewes, the skittering of a mouse, the ticking of a bug, the distant tumble of a stream.

So why were tears seeping through her lashes and skittering down her cheeks?

He resolved to ignore the skittering sensation that followed her touch.

Just outside the ring of light, he heard the small skitterings and soft susurrations of the nocturnal animals.