locomotion

Meaning

1. (uncountable, usually) The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
2. (uncountable, usually) Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming, brachiating or flying.
3. (countable, usually) A dance, originally popular in the 1960s, in which the arms are used to mimic the motion of the connecting rods of a steam locomotive.

Synonyms

motivity

movement

motion

motive power

transportation

travel

removal

running

🏃

kinesi

walking

🚶

kinesio-

motus

kineto-

ambulation

cinesi

gait

kinesis

motility

moving

redeployment

Translations

locomotion

locomoción

locomoção

Fortbewegung

locomozione

μετακίνηση

locomoció

progressione

hareket

voortbeweging

déplacement

تحرك

μετατόπιση

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ləʊ.kəˈməʊ.ʃən/

Etymology

From French locomotion, from Latin locō (literally “from a place”) (ablative of locus (“place”)) + mōtiōnem (“motion, a moving”) (nominative mōtio), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”).