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

How to pronounce crawling?

How to say crawling in sign language?

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How to use crawling in a sentence?

1. Sandra Morgan:

   They Died Crawling: And Other Tales of Cleveland Woe, goodbye.

2. Carolyn Dunford:

   I think I had been driving for about 45 minutes and at about 7:45 a.m., I saw a group of cars crawling along, i pulled up with them and there were the two lions walking towards me. One of them saw the kudu [type of large antelope] in the bushes and I saw the lion crouch.

3. Martinez Fischer:

   With the eyes of the nation watching us, we knew that we had to rise up and demonstrate to our friends in Washington, and as I said last night, Mr. President we humbly ask you for a federal solution, please give us federal voting rights act, what we did last night is the equivalent of us crawling on our knees to federal officials to tell( them), the time to act is now -- if not Texas, then when ?

4. Scott C. Holstad:

   one night i saw the black widow crawling on my bed and the fear coursing through my veins felt like the best kind of hell

5. Omar Khayyám:

   And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.