locomote
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As soon as they can locomote on their own, most children want to go faster, stronger, higher as part of their play unless we discourage it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
Parents of babies up to age 3 can watch their children locomote on tatami mats or haul themselves up on their jellied legs by holding on to short, fence-like partitions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
They locomote, consume and proliferate all on their own.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2015
Even at that the difficulty remained one of hard walking alone, for he had been familiar with that country since childhood, and knew the precise direction in which it was necessary for him to locomote.
From Aladdin O'Brien by Morris, Gouverneur
"If you please, Miss Clorinda, I tink I will locomote home; I ain't accustomed to sich goings on myself; dey isn't de fashion in de Piney Cove basement."
From A Noble Woman by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
The near 700,000 Black folk who arrived in L.A. between 1940 and 1970, who locomoted the City of Los Angeles streamliner or rode a grumbling Greyhound or braved the crucible of driving.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...
From Time Magazine Archive
I followed him down the long hall with my hands resting on my hips and my shoulders not-so-subtly open, praying he wouldn’t turn around and see me locomoting like a fool.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2012
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