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. 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.

2. Arlene Holmes:

   I would have been crawling here on all fours, none of this would have happened.

3. 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.

4. Andrea Jaeger:

   I went with her and her girlfriend in the car, the person was swaying driving and I remember we hit either some garbage or a mailbox. When we got to my condo, she walked me to the door and tried something on with me. She was trying to kiss me. I was so sickened that I was crawling up the stairs inside trying not to throw up so my dad would n’t see me.

5. Emma Poole:

   That would be the most logical, at this point … that it was from above, so that is obviously something they would be looking at is someone crawling through the ventilation system.