Synonyms for crawling
crawl·ing

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1. crawl, crawling, creep, creepingnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   crawl, creep, weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, front crawl, spook, creeping

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1. • Locomotion

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1. crawlingadjective

   Synonyms:
   creeping, reptile, reptant, reptatorial, reptatory

2. crawlingnoun

   Synonyms:
   creeping

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1. List of paraphrases for "crawling":

   creeping, exploration, groveling, browsing, navigation

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1. Jessica Sinclair:

   We started to notice that she was having issues reaching her milestone of crawling, so at her regular pediatric check they did an eye screening and saw that she might have had a slight astigmatism.

2. Firefighter John Loennecker:

   They were crawling on their knees for about an hour, it was dark down there. They had one cell phone light, and that was it.

3. Olga Santiago:

   It's critical to diagnose early and to begin treatment as early as possible to stop the irreversible motor neuron loss, and make the achievement of motor milestones such as crawling, sitting and walking possible.

4. David Madden:

   Stock markets are crawling between optimism around the rollout of vaccines and worries that a jump in virus infections and fresh local lockdowns could further affect economic recovery prospects.

5. Keneiloe Molopyane:

   We were really put in very extreme situations, crawling through very tight tunnels, i've had my butt stuck, I've had my head stuck and it's a challenge not to panic -- but also, you learn a lot about yourself and inner strength in those conditions.