scooted; scooting; scoots
1
: to move swiftly
2
: to slide especially while seated
scoot over and let me sit down
scoot
noun
Synonyms
- barrel
- belt
- blast
- blaze
- blow
- bolt
- bomb [slang]
- bowl
- breeze
- bundle
- bustle
- buzz
- cannonball
- careen
- career
- chase
- course
- crack (on)
- dash
- drive
- fly
- hare
- hasten
- hie
- highball
- hotfoot (it)
- hump
- hurl
- hurry
- hurtle
- hustle
- jet
- jump
- motor
- nip
- pelt
- race
- ram
- rip
- rocket
- run
- rush
- rustle
- scurry
- scuttle
- shoot
- speed
- step
- tear
- travel
- trot
- whirl
- whisk
- zip
- zoom
Examples of scoot in a Sentence
She talked to us for a few minutes before scooting off to some appointment.
She scooted her chair back a few inches.
He scooted closer to the table.
Recent Examples on the Web
The warmup started out like a high school sports practice—high knees, butt kicks, lunges—before moving into a series of humbling strength exercises, like scooting across the floor in plank position with my feet on a glider disc.
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Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
These are satellites that scoot around in orbit, somewhere between 300 and 1,200 miles from Earth’s surface.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
The protesters competed with a man scooting through the crowd, blasting West Coast rap, as well as the pedestrians and tourists of Hollywood.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
But then the doors opened, and Petit scooted out into the fresh air.
—Bob Morris, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
These are satellites that scoot around in orbit, somewhere between 300 and 1,200 miles from Earth’s surface.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
The protesters competed with a man scooting through the crowd, blasting West Coast rap, as well as the pedestrians and tourists of Hollywood.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
But then the doors opened, and Petit scooted out into the fresh air.
—Bob Morris, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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“Scoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scoot. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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