locomote

Definitions

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  • verb To move or travel (from one location to another).

Examples

  • Uncertain how to identity that particular subset, I parse the group as a mix of money -- both old (Southampton's Meadow Club); and new (Bridgehampton's upstart so there Atlantic Golf Club) -- art world players; the culturati; and women who wear sheaths so tight they locomote with a little shuffle.

    Erica Abeel: Getting Voluptuous With Robert Wilson at His Hamptons Gala

  • But then, when the going gets difficult, as mother says, those coveting advancement must locomote.

    Alteration

  • After billions of years of evolution, it was inevitable life would acquire the ability to locomote, to hunt and see, to protect itself from competitors.

    Robert Lanza, M.D.: Have Aliens Left the Universe? Theory Predicts We'll Follow

  • By walking upright over four million years ago, the earliest hominids were already on an evolutionary track separate from even chimps and gorillas, our nearest genetic cousins, who locomote with a different kind of gait known as knuckle-walking.

    Deepak Chopra: What We Don't Know Is Thrilling

  • There is something incredibly strange about watching a person cling to a vertical wall and locomote across it with thoughtful pauses every now and then to consider the next perch for hand or foot.

    Archive 2009-11-01

  • Amoebas locomote by shifting cytoplasm inside their bodies to create pseudopods which slowly pull the organisms along.

    Protozoa

  • This strange show takes place in Wheelie World, which is inhabited principally by the “wheelies”, a race of anthropomorphic creatures who locomote by means of wheels.

    Chorlton and the Wheelies » Fanboy.com

  • To locomote is absolutely necessary to every Englishman; in his heart is profoundly rooted a passion for long journeys; each and all of them, old and young, healthy and sickly, would if they could take not merely the grand tour, but circulate round the two hemispheres with all the pleasure imaginable.

    Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches

  • Recently, I have been noticing what people say about themselves and how they locomote in their chairs.

    Wheelchair Dancer

Note

The word 'locomote' is a back-formation from 'locomotion'.