"scamper off" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe an animal (or person) leaving somewhere quickly. For example: The dog scampered off when it heard the thunder.
She'd scamper off stage, letting the band take over, and return in a few minutes newly outfitted — silver, red, blue, gold — and fluffing her luxuriant hair.
Then the music would scamper off on dazzling individual tangents: playful, willful tempo fluctuations, thickets and inundations of dissonance, wry quotations, pensive melodic interludes.
"We always have this discussion!" Ronnie Spector Greenfield is nervous and certainly scattered, but if her thoughts, rendered in a froggy smoker's voice, scamper off in exultation, why not?
Having eaten long and well, we sit back under the cool, dappled light and polish off the remaining malbec, while the kids scamper off, ice-creams in hand, to explore the island.
It must have been Potter's favorite, too, for she repeated it four times: "Tip tap, tip tap, tip tap tip!" Once the mice scamper off, the tailor takes to his bed with a high fever and is delirious for several days.
With the help of Charles's brother, the devil-may-care Harry Jack Davenportthe the young lovers scamper off to a church, where they are married, and then flee before the spurned squire arrives, vowing revenge "if I have to hunt you both down like animals".
But it's so big, it scampers off, growling.
He scampers off with an age-defying turn of pace.
Genesis whispered a shy hello, then scampered off to do homework.
I think I got a line or two from Arcan and then scampered off.
Naturally, Monkey scampers off to tell his friend Elephant, then Goat, then Spider and so on.
