locomote

[ loh-kuh-moht ]

verb (used without object)

, lo·co·mot·ed, lo·co·mot·ing.

1. to move about, especially under one's own power.

Word History and Origins

Origin of locomote¹

First recorded in 1825–35; back formation from locomotion

Example Sentences

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

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

They locomote, consume and proliferate all on their own.

From Salon

The local symptoms in this case being limited to one arm and shoulder, the patient was enabled to locomote, and thus became an office-patient.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

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