Synonyms of crawler

crawler

noun

ˈkrȯ-lər 

as in snail

someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others

he's always the crawler who makes everyone else late

Synonyms & Similar Words

• snail
• slug
• dragger
• straggler
• lingerer
• dawdler
• plodder
• laggard
• loiterer
• slowpoke
• lagger
• delayer
• dallier
• idler
• loafer
• latecomer
• sluggard
• slouch
• lazybones
• lounger
• procrastinator

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• speedster
• scrambler
• hustler
• speeder
• rusher
• go-getter
• hurrier

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of crawler

The Brave engine under the hood has implications for individuals, organizations, or companies that might want to block Claude from accessing their sites since, presumably, Brave's web crawler is doing the web indexing. —Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025

Restaurants and Bars Foodies and pub crawlers will find a wide collection of restaurants and bars in Celestial Park designed to rival the culinary nirvana of Epcot’s World Showcase. —Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 19 Mar. 2025

The crawlers – computer programs, not insects – scour the web to collect data and save web pages. —Matthew Kaufman, CNN, 18 Feb. 2025

Co-founder Jason Aramburu half-jokingly likens his future vehicles to the Jawa crawlers from Star Wars—ones that scavenge for stalks and corncobs instead of dead robots. —Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024