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• a  (of movement) having a light and springy step
  a light-footed girl

• From this vivid little home movie, the book spins forward, light-footed, catching Hannah on a disastrous college road trip, falling for her trampy cousin's boyfriend, having her .
• Many of the girls are still light-footed, merry; it's their dads who are fading, and you wonder who will be leaning on whom as they head out into the cool mountain night.
• After the Dodgers lost the 1953 World Series to the Yankees, Mullin had his Bum futilely chasing a light-footed brunette in a parody of Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn ("Thou still .

• heavy-footed

News & Articles

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• BELARUS STAR STRIKES GOLD AGAIN
  Darya Domracheva is so light-footed on her skis, her rivals have started comparing her with a dancer.
  Feb. 18, 2014 - U-T San Diego
• Domracheva wins 3rd Olympic biathlon gold medal
  Darya Domracheva is so light-footed on her skis, her rivals have started comparing her with a dancer. Without losing rhythm, the Belarussian eased to her third victory at the Sochi Games by winning the 12.5-kilometer mass start race on Monday, completing an unprecedented haul of three gold medals in women's biathlon at one Olympics. ''Maybe it's strange, but I don't feel like I've done something ...
  Feb. 17, 2014 - The Associated Press via Yahoo! Sports

Quotes

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• Marco van Basten in Sportinglife.com
  Former AC Milan star van Basten, whose career was ended by an ankle injury at the age of 29, said: "Every defender knows they must eliminate Robben. Maybe he must learn to go differently, more light-footed into a duel. I had to do that in the past....
• Sheila Jackson Lee in Berkshire Eagle
  On that night, we were simply trembling,said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. "We were light-footed, like a burden was lifted off of our shoulders. I thought of all the babies that are going to be named Obama."
• John Hutton in BBC News
  Mr Hutton said the public's "increasingly high expectations" of public services meant the services needed to be "more light-footed and flexible" - and data-sharing was needed to help this happen.