crawling
noun
- moving along the ground on hands and knees
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɔːlɪŋ/ / /ˈkɹɑlɪŋ/ / /ˈkɹaːlɪn/
noun
- The motion of something that crawls.
“Miss Brass […] devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of crawl