crawling — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The motion of something that crawls.

   Examples

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   Miss Brass […] devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

Noun

1. a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

   Synonyms

   crawlcreepcreeping

   Broader terms

   locomotiontravel

   Examples

   a crawl was all that the injured man could manage

   the traffic moved at a creep