nimblyEnglishOxford American Thesaurusnimbly adverb she watched him climb nimbly over the wall: agilely, lithely, acrobatically, lightly, easily, spryly, actively, quickly, smartly, briskly; gracefully, supply, lissomly, flexibly, skillfully, deftly, dexterously, adroitly; informal nippily, zippily; literary fleetly, lightsomely. ▷antonyms clumsily.