locomotion
About 1.49 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
- noun Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming, brachiating or flying.
- noun A dance, originally popular in the 1960s, in which the arms are used to mimic the motion of the connecting rods of a steam locomotive.
Similar words
motivity motive power travel locomotor quadrupedal bipedal biped shift movement mobility
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Word family
locomotions
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