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. Chief Raymond Flannelly:

   Not sure how many lizards we found, but the snakes were large enough to give anyone crawling through a smoke-filled house a heart attack.

2. 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.

3. Susie Bartlett:

   We got poked and scratched by spiny branches when crawling through to access the animals.

4. Peckish Erast Zubarev:

   I’d made a cup of coffee, and was settling in front of the TV down when I opened it and saw this little white worm crawling across the top, i was told by my mate it was a parasitic threadworm that lives in the intestine.

5. John Bleh:

   One of the struggles right now is this whole process is crawling a little bit more either because embassies are shut down or limited hours, limited staffing, this whole process has been backed up.