Horses have three modes of locomotion: Walk, trot and gallop.
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Locomotion
/ˌloʊ.kəˈmoʊ.ʃən/
Synonyms for "locomotion" (50 found)
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Noun(6 words)
Adjective(1 words)
bodily movement
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Noun(8 words)
Determiner(1 words)
most routine motion
Related words (25)
Noun(10 words)
motion wordmotive powermotivitymovabilitymovementmovement patternpropulsiontoddlingundulationwalking
Adjective(1 words)
physical movement
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6 entriesanimal locomotionhuman locomotionlocomotion developmentlocomotion patternlocomotion skillnatural locomotion
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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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