They ran like deer, by which I mean that they ran not as if it was a performance, but as if it was their natural gait.

We remembered those fleeting girls of our first bright adventure, and concluded that it was.
They leaped like deer, too, with a quick folding motion of the legs, drawn up and turned to one side with a sidelong twist of the body.

I remembered the sprawling spread-eagle way in which some of the fellows used to come over the line--and tried to learn the trick.

We did not easily catch up with these experts, however.
"Never thought I'd live to be bossed by a lot of elderly lady acrobats," Terry protested.
They had games, too, a good many of them, but we found them rather uninteresting at first.

It was like two people playing solitaire to see who would get it first; more like a race or a--a competitive examination, than a real game with some fight in it.
I philosophized a bit over this and told Terry it argued against their having any men about.