skedaddling
Getting out fast
Skedaddling is running away hastily, especially in a panicked or cowardly retreat.
The word emerged during the American Civil War to describe soldiers fleeing battle, and retains a slightly humorous or dismissive tone: When the cops showed up, everyone went skedaddling.
It suggests undignified haste rather than strategic withdrawal.
Swift foot travel
- retreatingMoving back from advance
- scamperingMoving quickly, playfully
- dashingSpiritedly stylish and bold
- sprintingMaximum-speed locomotion on foot
scrambling · departing · evacuating · disappearing · vanishing · splitting · beating it · making tracks
Moving with urgent speed
- rushingRapid forward movement
- scramblingMoving clumsily in haste
- scurryingHasty, light-footed motion
- hustlingHurrying or swindling
hastening · quickening · speeding · darting · zipping · zooming · whizzing · racing
Avoiding by moving aside
- evadingSkillfully keeping away from
- shirkingAvoiding obligatory tasks
- duckingBending to avoid impact
- ditchingHastily discarding something
bailing · weaseling · slipping away · sneaking off · sidestepping · abandoning · deserting · backing out
running
Swift foot travel
- retreatingMoving back from advance
- scamperingMoving quickly, playfully
- dashingSpiritedly stylish and bold
sprinting · scrambling · departing · evacuating · disappearing · vanishing · splitting · beating it · making tracks · taking off
hurrying
Moving with urgent speed
- rushingRapid forward movement
- scramblingMoving clumsily in haste
- scurryingHasty, light-footed motion
hustling · hastening · quickening · speeding · darting · zipping · zooming · whizzing · racing · tearing
dodging
Avoiding by moving aside
ditching · bailing · weaseling · slipping away · sneaking off · sidestepping · abandoning · deserting · backing out · copping out
skedaddlingstaying
Continuing in place
remaining · staying put · lingering · arriving · sticking around
skedaddlingdawdling
Leisurely time-wasting
loitering · dallying · moseying · lollygagging · taking one's time
skedaddlingstanding one's ground
Refusing to yield position
confronting · facing · staying put · digging in · braving
escaping, fleeing, bolting, skedaddle, scooting, decamping, hightailing, skedaddled, skedaddles