bipedally

Walking upright style

In the manner of a biped—walking on two feet.

Humans move bipedally, as do birds.

The term appears most often in scientific or technical contexts discussing locomotion: Early hominids began walking bipedally millions of years ago.

The robot was designed to move bipedally across uneven terrain.

anatomy

upright

Vertical or morally sound

pelvis · balance · gait · skeleton · legs · feet · hip · musculature · alignment · center of gravity

locomotion

walking

Locomotion on foot

hiking · marching · strolling · sauntering · trudging · ambling · running · sprinting · jogging · hopping

evolution

hominid

Bipedal primate family

upright posture · savanna · natural selection · fossil record · human evolution · ape · ancestor · speciation · vertebrate · mammal

creatures

human

Homo sapiens individual

emu · flamingo · chicken · tyrannosaur · velociraptor · roadrunner · crane · stork · heron · cassowary

Opposites
mode of locomotion by limb count

bipedallyon all fours

Hands and knees down

on hands and knees · crawling · slithering

Phrases
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bipedal, bipedalism, bipedality

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