Horses have three modes of locomotion: Walk, trot and gallop.
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Locomotion
//ˌloʊ.kəˈmoʊ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "locomotion" (26 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (13)
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4 entriesderived
5 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
21 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- придвижване noun (ability to move)
Catalan
1 entries- locomoció noun (ability to move)
Dutch
1 entries- voortbeweging noun (ability to move)
Finnish
1 entries- liikkumiskyky noun (ability to move)
French
1 entries- locomotion noun (ability to move)
Galician
1 entries- locomoción noun (ability to move)
Georgian
1 entries- გადაადგილება noun (ability to move)
German
3 entries- Fortbewegung noun (ability to move)
- Fortbewegungsfähigkeit noun (ability to move)
- Lokomotion noun (ability to move)
Ido
1 entries- lokomoco noun (ability to move)
Irish
1 entries- féinghluaiseacht noun (ability to move)
Italian
1 entries- locomozione noun (ability to move)
Polish
2 entries- lokomocja noun (ability to move)
- poruszanie się noun (ability to move)
Portuguese
1 entries- locomoção noun (ability to move)
Romanian
1 entries- locomoție noun (ability to move)
Russian
1 entries- ход noun (ability to move)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- lokomocija noun (ability to move)
- локомоција noun (ability to move)
Spanish
1 entries- locomoción noun (ability to move)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The new robot, dubbed “Flipperbot,” was designed to allow scientists to learn more about the locomotion of animals such as seals, sea turtles and mudskippers.
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A car is a means of locomotion.
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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.
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