as in mobility
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the act or power of moving from place to place
studying the locomotion of spiders Walking is one form of locomotion.
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Recent Examples of locomotion
The inset provides a close-up view of an A. rubens arm, where contact points of individual tube feet with the substrate are clearly visible during locomotion (arrow).
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Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 8 Feb. 2026
Four of the sculptures, installed in a long line at Dan Colen’s Sky High Farm Biennial in upstate New York in summer 2025, conjured the sliced and schematized representations of bodily locomotion in Étienne-Jules Marey’s chronophotographs.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
This could one day enable multimodal locomotion for miniature robots with extended flight times.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Jan. 2026
The video shows examples of these robots performing object manipulation, locomotion, human-assistance, and reconfiguration, controlled by our system.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2026
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Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 8 Feb. 2026
Four of the sculptures, installed in a long line at Dan Colen’s Sky High Farm Biennial in upstate New York in summer 2025, conjured the sliced and schematized representations of bodily locomotion in Étienne-Jules Marey’s chronophotographs.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
This could one day enable multimodal locomotion for miniature robots with extended flight times.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Jan. 2026
The video shows examples of these robots performing object manipulation, locomotion, human-assistance, and reconfiguration, controlled by our system.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for locomotion
Noun
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The park is big, so people with mobility issues might want to settle in at the Casina del Lago espresso bar, which has views of the lake.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Apr. 2026
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This will help promote housing stability and economic mobility.—
Chase Jordan
April 7,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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His guest, a man named James Fishback, who is in his early thirties, summed up his hopes for the future of the conservative movement.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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This event was part of the #MeToo blackout awards season, in which attendees wore black in support of the movement—but the British Royal family is never supposed to make a political statement of any kind.—
Katherine J Igoe,
InStyle,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Locomotion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locomotion. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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