The word "scoot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb meaning "to move or cause to move in a quick, casual, or light way". For example, "She scooted out of the room as soon as she saw him coming."
The craze ended swiftly: it wasn't really becoming for grown-ups to scoot down pavements, scattering pedestrians.
MY FAVOURITE scene in "Argo" was the sequence towards the end of the film where Joe Stafford, the Farsi-speaking American-embassy officer (played by Scoot McNairy) pretending to be a film producer, explains the plot of the sci-fi movie he's supposedly making to the Iranian revolutionary guards interrogating him and his fellow Americans at the Tehran airport as they try to get out of the country.
WHEN disaster strikes, the reaction of many investors is to scoot first and ask questions later.
Nearly 1,200 of them scoot around America's shale beds; in Poland they number only half a dozen.
The result, known as the Magnus effect, is an upward force on the ball, like the lift of an aeroplane wing, which helps the ball scoot over the turf.
"Unlike other islands in the Hebrides, Tiree is flat so clouds scoot past us," he said.
Orbotix, the company behind the Sphero robot series has been making brilliant robots for years, mostly in the shape of balls which scoot speedily around when remote controlled by smartphone or tablet.
They scoot you around town and are ideal for a commute that includes a train, say, when you can fold it and take it on board without worry.
You could even imagine the studio itself, where no day at the open-plan office was complete without a scoot past the inflatable palm trees to the smoothie bar.
Take a ride Half the fun of visiting the leafy Vomero neighbourhood is getting there: from Piazza Duca d'Aosta (22), off via Toledo, a funicular will scoot you steeply up to the via Domenico Cimarosa for just €1 (75p).
By the end, sprinklers have turned the performing space into a sizeable pond in which the five dancers frolic, stamp and loll, making fearsome waves as they scoot across the floor on their stomachs.
