belly crawling
Prone forward movement
Belly crawling is moving forward while lying flat on one's stomach, using arms and legs to propel the body close to the ground.
Soldiers belly crawl under barbed wire or through low cover: We spent the afternoon belly crawling through mud.
The term also describes servile, groveling behavior—debasing oneself before someone in power: He's been belly crawling to the boss ever since the promotion opened up.
- slitheringSmooth limbless locomotion
- proneInclined or face-down
- commandoSpecial operations soldier
- special forcesElite unconventional warfare troops
- snakeLimbless scaled reptile
infantry · army training · mud · dirt · low · ground · stealth · creeping · wriggling · elbows · knees · combat · military · boot camp · trenches · underbrush · squirming · inching
- cavingspelunking, cave diving, exploration, squeezing, surveying
- animal behaviorsswimming, running, walking, jumping, flying
- reptile anatomyskeleton, bones, lungs, skull, ribs
belly crawlingasserting oneself
Expressing one's position confidently
standing one's ground · standing tall · self-respect · dignity · defiance
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