crawl

nouns

a very slow movement
"the traffic advanced at a crawl"
crawl
is a type of (narrower)
the act of changing location from one place to another
"police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"
motion, move, movement
a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
Australian crawl, crawl, front crawl
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"
crawl, crawling, creep, creeping

verbs

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
"The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
crawl, creep
is derived from
crawler
is derived from
crawler
is derived from
crawling
feel as if crawling with insects
"My skin crawled--I was terrified"
crawl
is a type of (narrower)
be felt or perceived in a certain way
"The ground feels shaky"; "The sheets feel soft"
feel
be full of
"The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
crawl
is a type of (narrower)
be teeming, be abuzz
"The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"
pullulate, swarm, teem
show submission or fear
cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel
is derived from
crawler
swim by doing the crawl
"European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"
crawl
domain category
sports that involve bodies of water
aquatics, water sport
is a type of (narrower)
travel through water
"We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"
swim