locomoted; locomoting

intransitive verb

: to move about

Examples of locomote in a Sentence

most babies begin to locomote—by crawling—when they are seven to ten months old
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So, those are (roughly in order) the hands, the sensory apparatus like vision and haptics and sound and so on, and the ability to locomote to get the hands to work. IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023 This study provides a better understanding of the interactions between the foot and the terrain and opens up to new way to design soft robots able to locomote on unstructured terrains. IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2020

Word History

Etymology

back-formation from locomotion

First Known Use

1831, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of locomote was in 1831

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“Locomote.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/locomote. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.

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