light-footed
play
trip
saltation
bound
spring
leap
bounce
leaping
swaying
springlike
step
crawling
phototropism
levitation
classical ballet
trippingness
springy
springingly
moonwalk
crabwise
sideways
zigzagging
heavy-footed
swivelling
coupee
flip
reciprocate
T-step
jogtrot
evolution
nimble
lightsomely
drive
trippingly
waddle
lolloping
turtle
jouncing
transition
photokinesis
chasse
sashay
roll
shuffly
flap
kinetic
backward
wave
undulate
promenade
retrograde
spiralling
ball change
photomotor
pas
Lindy
tropo-
poetry in motion
steplength
strafe
movingly
creepily
hurtle
-tropism
uphand
flittingly
delicacy
micromovement
stridingly
worm
airiness
weave
geotropism
tread
walk turkey
beat
midstride
dosado
totter
motionally
along
on
roister
dance
veeringly
jerkingly
undulation
lateroduction
swagger
photogravitropic
climb
footpace
frontflip
judderingly
stagger
bob
light-footed
springlike
springy
crabwise
sideways
heavy-footed
nimble
shuffly
kinetic
photomotor
uphand
photogravitropic
springingly
lightsomely
trippingly
backward
movingly
creepily
flittingly
stridingly
midstride
motionally
along
on
veeringly
jerkingly
judderingly
play
trip
saltation
bound
spring
leap
bounce
leaping
swaying
step
crawling
phototropism
levitation
classical ballet
trippingness
zigzagging
swivelling
coupee
T-step
evolution
lolloping
turtle
jouncing
transition
photokinesis
chasse
sashay
promenade
retrograde
spiralling
ball change
pas
Lindy
poetry in motion
steplength
strafe
hurtle
delicacy
micromovement
airiness
geotropism
tread
totter
wave
undulation
lateroduction
footpace
frontflip
stagger
bob
flap
moonwalk
flip
reciprocate
jogtrot
drive
waddle
roll
flap
wave
undulate
worm
weave
walk turkey
beat
dosado
roister
dance
swagger
climb
noun
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
verb
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To compete against, in a game.
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To gamble.
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To produce music.
- To act or perform (a play).
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To put in action or motion.
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
noun
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A stumble or misstep.
- A trip-switch or cut-out.
- Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- A flock of wigeons.
- A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- A mechanical cutout device.
- A faux pas, a social error.
adj
verb
- To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- To journey, to make a trip.
noun
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- (geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface
- (genetics) a mutation that drastically changes the phenotype of an organism or species
- an abrupt transition
- taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
noun
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- a line determining the limits of an area
- the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
- the greatest possible degree of something
adj
- confined by bonds
- held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
- secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
adj
- (usually followed by `to') governed by fate
- covered or wrapped with a bandage
- headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'
- bound by an oath
- bound by contract
- confined in the bowels
verb
noun
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a natural flow of ground water
- a point at which water issues forth
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
verb
noun
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- A small space or distance.
- A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A stepchild.
- A stepsibling.
- A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
verb
- To dance.
- To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To set, as the foot.
verb
- move with a flick or light motion
- lightly throw to see which side comes up
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- look through a book or other written material
- toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
- cause to move with a flick
- throw or toss with a light motion
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way
- go mad, go crazy
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
adj
noun
- an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
- hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg
- a sudden, quick movement
- the act of flipping a coin
- a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
noun
- A turning movement, especially of the body.
- The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.
- The extraction of a root from a given power.
- Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
- A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
- A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
- The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
- The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
verb
- move by being propelled by a force
- operate or control a vehicle
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- cause to move back by force or influence
- compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
- push, propel, or press with force
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- have certain properties when driven
- work as a driver
- urge forward
- proceed along in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- (hunting) search for game
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
noun
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a road leading up to a private house
- the trait of being highly motivated
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
noun
- A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
- A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
- A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
- An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
- A low stand for a lamp etc.
- An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
- A marine reptile of that order.
- The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
- Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
verb
noun
- A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- Death; passing from life into death.
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- A change of key.
- A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
- The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
verb
verb
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move by turning over or rotating
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- flatten or spread with a roller
- emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
- arrange or coil around
- begin operating or running
- shape by rolling
- execute a roll, in tumbling
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- move, rock, or sway from side to side
- cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis
- pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
- boil vigorously
- take the shape of a roll or cylinder
- show certain properties when being rolled
noun
- rotary motion of an object around its own axis
- a list of names
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)
- small rounded bread either plain or sweet
- a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
- a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
- anything rolled up in cylindrical form
- the act of throwing dice
- walking with a swaying gait
- a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- Toward or into the past;
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
noun
adj
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- Late or behindhand.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
verb
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- signal with the hands or nod
- move or swing back and forth
- twist or roll into coils or ringlets
- set waves in
noun
- (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
- a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
- something that rises rapidly
- the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
- a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
- an undulating curve
- a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
verb
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
adj
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
adv
verb
- To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- To deworm (an animal).
noun
- Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
verb
- To move by turning and twisting.
- To unite by close connection or intermixture.
- To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
- To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
- To spin a cocoon or a web.
- To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
- To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.
noun
noun
- A manner of stepping.
- A step taken with the foot.
- The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
- The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
- The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
- A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
- The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
- The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
- The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
- The sound made when someone or something is walking.
verb
- To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
- To beat or press with the feet.
- To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
- To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
- To step or walk upon.
- To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
- To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
- To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
- To copulate with.
- To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
verb
- move with a flapping motion
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- hit repeatedly
- move rhythmically
- shape by beating
- make a rhythmic sound
- glare or strike with great intensity
- move with a thrashing motion
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- stir vigorously
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- be superior
- avoid paying
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- make by pounding or trampling
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- beat through cleverness and wit
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- wear out completely
noun
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- the sound of stroke or blow
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
adj
verb
- To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
- To mount; to move upwards on.
- To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
- to jump high
- Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
- to practise the sport of climbing
- To scale; to get to the top of something.
- To ascend; rise; to go up.
noun
noun
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- One who attends a stag night.
- The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
verb
- To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To cause to reel or totter.
noun
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- An unspecified amount of money.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- A bobsleigh.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A curtsy.
- A bob haircut.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The short runner of a sled.
verb
- To bobsleigh.
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- To curtsy.
- To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
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