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. Blake Collins:

   They're crawling on our bed sheets, they're crawling on our mattress.

2. 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.

3. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.

4. 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.

5. Omar Khayym:

   And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help for It As impotently moves as you or I.