scurry

Etymology

Perhaps from hurry-skurry, a reduplication of hurry.

verb

1. To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
   Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack. March 14, 2017, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian
   Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth. 1964, William Golding, Lord of the Flies

noun

1. A dash.
   Found a fox in Deerstone, and after a great deal of music, and a scurry or two round the wood, went away over Whigford Down, but he was too far before them to make any more quick music […] 1845, Sporting Magazine, volume 5, page 25