Ran barracks among variety of reeds (9)
I believe the answer is:
scampered
'ran' is the definition.
(scampering is a kind of running)
'barracks among variety of reeds' is the wordplay.
'barracks' becomes 'camp' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'among' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are placed among others).
'variety of' indicates an anagram.
'reeds' is an anagram of 'sered'.
'camp' put into 'sered' is 'SCAMPERED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for scampered that I've seen is " hurried".)