stone skipping

She turned back, skipped the last stone across the pond.

It drew the eye like a stone skipping over water.

But some ideas spread like stones skipping across the top of the water.

"He asked me, why is the stone skipping and not sinking?"

They bounced off the shields like stones skipping over water.

Another stone skipped through the area, narrowly missing Darda's head.

She still felt like a stone skipping across ice when she thought about magery in general.

A second detonation sent it spinning like a flat stone skipped over a pond.

Though it may not be obvious, bullets easily ricochet off water; compare stone skipping.

"We'll rebound, like a stone skipping over a pond."