English Synonym Finder

crawling

Definitions

Moving forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground.

Moving or progressing at an exceptionally slow pace.

Teeming or covered with a large number of moving insects or people.

Examples

The baby is crawling across the living room floor.

Traffic was crawling at a snail's pace during the rush hour commute.

I felt a spider crawling up my arm and jumped in surprise.

Synonyms

creeping slithering inching crouching waddling skulking slinking

Antonyms

sprinting dashing racing bolting speeding hurrying rushing