Meaning

(uncountable) The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
2. (biology, uncountable) Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming, brachiating or flying.
3. (countable, often preceded by definite article) A dance, originally popular in the 1960s, in which the arms are used to mimic the motion of the connecting rods of a steam locomotive.

Example Sentences

So it is that one of the characteristics that the sperm whale shares with all cetaceans is that it swims by flexing its tail flukes dorso-ventrally, a less efficient way of swimming than that of its distant piscine ancestors, but a mode of locomotion that derives directly from the galloping of its more recent terrestrial ones.

The assessment also looks at reflexes, stationary (body control), locomotion (movement), grasping and visual-motor integration (eyes and hands coordinated).

Mr. Motian's own tunes, folk-simple locomotions of straight melody, fast or slow, with acres of room for interpretation, have accounted for some of the mistier sets.

Word Forms

• locomotions

Synonyms for locomotion

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When Should You Use Locomotion?

Use locomotion when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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