Crawling (Noun)
Meaning
A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The infant was still in the crawling stage and was learning to walk.
- After the accident, she was left with a painful injury that made walking impossible, and crawling was her only option.
- The athlete was forced to switch to crawling due to a severe leg cramp during the competition.
- The child went from sitting to crawling in a matter of weeks after months of trying.
- The slow pace of the traffic forced the driver to become frustrated at the crawling speed.