When people or small animals scamper somewhere, they move there quickly with small, light steps. Children scampered off the yellow school bus and into the playground. to run with quick short steps, like a child or small animal (Probably from early schampen , from escamper, from excampare , from campus; CAMP)
to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"