crawled
Went on fours
Crawled is the past tense of crawl—to move on hands and knees, or to move slowly and close to a surface.
Babies crawl before they walk.
Traffic crawls during rush hour.
Insects crawl along walls.
The wounded soldier crawled to safety.
If something makes your skin crawl, it fills you with revulsion or unease.
Child learning to walk
- infantVery young child
- creepingMoving slowly, stealthily
- milestoneNotable event marking progress
- developmentProgress toward maturity
nursery · playpen · teething · onesie · naptime · cruising · floor · carpet
Uneven gait from injury
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- draggingPulling with effort
- hobbleWalk with impaired gait
- painfulCausing hurt or ache
struggling · desperate · staggering · groaning · weakened · battered · exhausted · bleeding
Moving very gradually
- creepingMoving slowly, stealthily
- ploddingMoving slowly, heavily
- sluggishSlow and inactive
- lethargicLacking energy or alertness
glacial · laborious · painstaking · tedious · gradual · dragging · shuffling · trudging
Body's outer layer
- eerieDisturbingly strange
- creepyDisturbingly strange
- chillingCausing fear or cold
- shiversInvoluntary bodily trembling
goosebumps · hair-raising · unsettling · dread · horror · haunted · macabre · sinister
Web-spinning arachnid
- botAutomated software agent
- indexingSystematic organization for retrieval
- scraperTool for removing buildup
- sitemapWebsite's page directory
robots.txt · spidering · automated · parsing · harvesting · caching · rate-limiting · fetching
Filled to capacity
- swarmingGathering in large numbers
- teemingAbundantly full of
- overrunSpread throughout uncontrollably
- infestedOverrun by pests
bustling · jam-packed · mobbed · overflowing · congested · heaving · thronging · cramped
Social colony insects
- beetlesHard-winged insects
- spidersWeb-spinning eight-legged creatures
- cockroachesHardy household insect pests
- centipedesMulti-legged segmented arthropods
caterpillars · worms · maggots · larvae · millipedes · bugs · termites · earwigs
toddler
Child learning to walk
development · nursery · playpen · teething · onesie · naptime · cruising · floor · carpet · exploring
limping
Uneven gait from injury
painful · struggling · desperate · staggering · groaning · weakened · battered · exhausted · bleeding · collapsed
inching
Moving very gradually
lethargic · glacial · laborious · painstaking · tedious · gradual · dragging · shuffling · trudging · meandering
skin
Body's outer layer
shivers · goosebumps · hair-raising · unsettling · dread · horror · haunted · macabre · sinister · uncanny
spider
Web-spinning arachnid
- botAutomated software agent
- indexingSystematic organization for retrieval
- scraperTool for removing buildup
sitemap · robots.txt · spidering · automated · parsing · harvesting · caching · rate-limiting · fetching · scanning
packed
Filled to capacity
infested · bustling · jam-packed · mobbed · overflowing · congested · heaving · thronging · cramped · sardines
ants
Social colony insects
- beetlesHard-winged insects
- spidersWeb-spinning eight-legged creatures
- cockroachesHardy household insect pests
centipedes · caterpillars · worms · maggots · larvae · millipedes · bugs · termites · earwigs · scuttling
- movement verbsgo, walk, run, move, walked
- slowed downbraked, decelerated, reduced speed, slackened, throttled
- grovelingfawned, kowtowed, prostrated, bootlicked, toadied
- fawnedgroveled, kowtowed, toadied, flattered, curried favor
- crawl spaceShallow area under a house
- bar crawlSequential drinking establishment visits
- creepy crawlySmall unsettling creature
- creepy crawlersInsects and similar creatures
- crawl over each otherMove by climbing companions
- pub crawlSequential tavern visits
crawl, crawling, crawls, crawler, crawly, crawlers, crawliest, crawlier