skitter

Verb

• twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water

• cause to skip over a surface
  • Skip a stone across the pond
    

• glide easily along a surface

• to move about or proceed hurriedly
  • so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  skim , skip , scurry , scamper , scuttle