Crawl
verb
To move slowly on the hands and knees or dragging the body low to the ground.
The baby crawled towards its toy.
Often appears as...
- crawl on the ground
- crawl towards
verb
To move very slowly, especially of vehicles.
Due to the accident, the traffic was crawling.
Often appears as...
- crawl along
- crawl through traffic
verb
To show extreme humility and subservience.
He had to crawl to his boss to get a raise.
Often appears as...
- crawl to someone
- crawl in apology
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To feel an unpleasant tingling sensation, often when afraid or disgusted.
Horror movies make my skin crawl.
Often appears as...
- make one's skin crawl
- crawl with fear
noun
A slow mode of swimming, using alternate over-arm strokes and a flutter kick.
He switched to crawl for the last lap of the race.
Often appears as...
- swim the crawl
- learn the crawl
verb
To search the internet using a web crawler.
Search engines crawl the web to index new pages.
Often appears as...
- crawl the web
- crawl websites
verb
To move slowly on the hands and knees or dragging the body low to the ground.
The baby crawled towards its toy.
Often appears as...
- crawl on the ground
- crawl towards
verb
To move very slowly, especially of vehicles.
Due to the accident, the traffic was crawling.
Often appears as...
- crawl along
- crawl through traffic
verb
To show extreme humility and subservience.
He had to crawl to his boss to get a raise.
Often appears as...
- crawl to someone
- crawl in apology
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To feel an unpleasant tingling sensation, often when afraid or disgusted.
Horror movies make my skin crawl.
Often appears as...
- make one's skin crawl
- crawl with fear
noun
A slow mode of swimming, using alternate over-arm strokes and a flutter kick.
He switched to crawl for the last lap of the race.
Often appears as...
- swim the crawl
- learn the crawl
verb
To search the internet using a web crawler.
Search engines crawl the web to index new pages.
Often appears as...
- crawl the web
- crawl websites
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Pro Tip 1/2Infant Movement
Crawl describes how babies move before they learn to walk.
Look, the baby is learning to crawl!
Pro Tip 2/2Conveying Stealth
Used to suggest moving quietly and carefully to avoid detection.
The thief crawled silently through the dark room.
Pro Tip 1/2Infant Movement
Crawl describes how babies move before they learn to walk.
Look, the baby is learning to crawl!
Pro Tip 2/2Conveying Stealth
Used to suggest moving quietly and carefully to avoid detection.
The thief crawled silently through the dark room.
Pro Tip 1/2Infant Movement
Crawl describes how babies move before they learn to walk.
Look, the baby is learning to crawl!
Pro Tip 2/2Conveying Stealth
Used to suggest moving quietly and carefully to avoid detection.
The thief crawled silently through the dark room.
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Video examples
Filming A Battle Of Life...
that's exposed and it just really does sandblast you as you're crawling in it fills your ears even trying to breathe you inhale and you get a mouthful of sound and nose full of sand yeah it's horrible and the seals and the jackals they're just dealing with this pretty much every day that's what life's
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The three different ways...
The baby crawls down the middle of the mother's three vaginas, then must climb up to the pouch, where she spends the next 6-11 months suckling. Even after the baby kangaroo leaves this warm haven, she'll return to suckle milk. Sometimes, she's just one of three babies her mother is caring for.
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Why is biodiversity so...
due to its complex ecosystems, huge mix of species, and the genetic variety within those species. Here are tangled liana vines, which crawl up from the forest floor to the canopy, intertwining with treetops and growing thick wooden stems that support these towering trees.
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Bullying must end now PIPE...
laugh along but in reality all I wanted to do was crawl into a hole and die and now imagine being a freshman having a huge football postgraduate who you've never talked to before in your life publicly make fun of you in passing and then laugh to all of his friends about
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Zoologist spots Three...
they are also surprisingly comfortable with the insects in their fur sloths actually have a special relationship with a moth called the sloth mop and you can see him crawling all over her right now and these moths spend their entire life on the back of the
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Can Sloths Kill You? PIPE...
can move around on the ground, but a sloth moving around on the ground is possibly one of the creepiest things that you will ever see in your life. Yeah, it's it's more of like a crawl in a really strange way,
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Amy Purdy: Living beyond...
And how was I going to snowboard again? That day, I went home, I crawled into bed and this is what my life looked like for the next few me passed out, escaping from reality,
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Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
it's a whole living community and that's just the plants if it was warmer it would be crawling with life but for now the subtropical heat seems to have deserted us
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Top 5 Slithering Snake...
and digest its dinner so it's a good chance for me to get a closer look kind of weird this crawling into a deep cave looking for deadly venomous
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Giant Centipede PIPE...
the centipede advances on the iguana the iguana retreats the iguana scoots the centipede crawls scoot crawl scoot crawl
Video examples
Filming A Battle Of Life...
that's exposed and it just really does sandblast you as you're crawling in it fills your ears even trying to breathe you inhale and you get a mouthful of sound and nose full of sand yeah it's horrible and the seals and the jackals they're just dealing with this pretty much every day that's what life's
Video examples
The three different ways...
The baby crawls down the middle of the mother's three vaginas, then must climb up to the pouch, where she spends the next 6-11 months suckling. Even after the baby kangaroo leaves this warm haven, she'll return to suckle milk. Sometimes, she's just one of three babies her mother is caring for.
Video examples
Why is biodiversity so...
due to its complex ecosystems, huge mix of species, and the genetic variety within those species. Here are tangled liana vines, which crawl up from the forest floor to the canopy, intertwining with treetops and growing thick wooden stems that support these towering trees.
Video examples
Bullying must end now PIPE...
laugh along but in reality all I wanted to do was crawl into a hole and die and now imagine being a freshman having a huge football postgraduate who you've never talked to before in your life publicly make fun of you in passing and then laugh to all of his friends about
Video examples
Zoologist spots Three...
they are also surprisingly comfortable with the insects in their fur sloths actually have a special relationship with a moth called the sloth mop and you can see him crawling all over her right now and these moths spend their entire life on the back of the
Video examples
Can Sloths Kill You? PIPE...
can move around on the ground, but a sloth moving around on the ground is possibly one of the creepiest things that you will ever see in your life. Yeah, it's it's more of like a crawl in a really strange way,
Video examples
Amy Purdy: Living beyond...
And how was I going to snowboard again? That day, I went home, I crawled into bed and this is what my life looked like for the next few me passed out, escaping from reality,
Video examples
Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
it's a whole living community and that's just the plants if it was warmer it would be crawling with life but for now the subtropical heat seems to have deserted us
Video examples
Top 5 Slithering Snake...
and digest its dinner so it's a good chance for me to get a closer look kind of weird this crawling into a deep cave looking for deadly venomous
Video examples
Giant Centipede PIPE...
the centipede advances on the iguana the iguana retreats the iguana scoots the centipede crawls scoot crawl scoot crawl
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Quote examples
Rick Tumlinson
American Businessman
Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything in its power to live, and once alive, it will stand against all to remain alive. Its existence is its own argument.
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Carson Daly
American Entertainer
It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them.
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Amanda Tapping
Canadian Actress
I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.
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Agatha Christie
English Writer
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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Jayson Blair
American Journalist
Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.
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Logan Paul
American Celebrity
No matter how many people want me to crawl in a hole and die forever, I'm not going to do that.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese Author
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
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Ted Cassidy
American Actor
Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.
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Zora Neale Hurston
American Dramatist
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Janeane Garofalo
American Comedian
The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.
Quote examples
Rick Tumlinson
American Businessman
Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything in its power to live, and once alive, it will stand against all to remain alive. Its existence is its own argument.
Quote examples
Carson Daly
American Entertainer
It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them.
Quote examples
Amanda Tapping
Canadian Actress
I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.
Quote examples
Agatha Christie
English Writer
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Quote examples
Jayson Blair
American Journalist
Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.
Quote examples
Logan Paul
American Celebrity
No matter how many people want me to crawl in a hole and die forever, I'm not going to do that.
Quote examples
Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese Author
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
Quote examples
Ted Cassidy
American Actor
Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.
Quote examples
Zora Neale Hurston
American Dramatist
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Quote examples
Janeane Garofalo
American Comedian
The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.
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