creepings
Stealthy gradual movements
Creepings is the plural of creeping, the slow, stealthy movement of something advancing gradually.
The word appears in phrases like the creepings of age or strange creepings in the dark.
It often suggests something unsettling or inexorable—things that move so slowly you barely notice until they've arrived.
Involuntary bodily trembling
- chillsShivering spells from illness
- tinglingsLight prickling nerve sensations
- pricklingsSlight stinging sensations
- goosebumpsRaised skin from cold
crawlings · unease · eeriness · dread · willies · heebie-jeebies · skin-crawling · frissons
Climbing, trailing plants
- tendrilsSlender coiling growths
- ivyEvergreen climbing plant
- runnersThose who race on foot
- groundcoverLow plants blanketing soil
sprawling · trailing · climbing · spreading · undergrowth · moss · lichen · brambles
Movements on all fours
- slitheringsSinuous crawling motions
- inchingsVery slow movements
- edgingsFinishing strips at borders
- skulkingsActs of moving stealthily
gliding · shufflings · stalkings · looming · approaches · infiltrations · progressions · oozing
shivers
Involuntary bodily trembling
- chillsShivering spells from illness
- tinglingsLight prickling nerve sensations
- pricklingsSlight stinging sensations
goosebumps · crawlings · unease · eeriness · dread · willies · heebie-jeebies · skin-crawling · frissons · tremors
vines
Climbing, trailing plants
groundcover · sprawling · trailing · climbing · spreading · undergrowth · moss · lichen · brambles · bindweed
crawlings
Movements on all fours
- slitheringsSinuous crawling motions
- inchingsVery slow movements
- edgingsFinishing strips at borders
skulkings · gliding · shufflings · stalkings · looming · approaches · infiltrations · progressions · oozing
- creeping outCausing uneasy discomfort
- creeping in
- creeping along
- creeping dreadSlowly intensifying fearful anticipation
- creeping sensationSlow prickling on skin
- creeping onMoving furtively toward