Noun

• S: (n) crawl (a very slow movement) "the traffic advanced at a crawl"
• S: (n) crawl, front crawl, Australian crawl (a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick)
• S: (n) crawl, crawling, creep, creeping (a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body) "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"

Verb

• S: (v) crawl, creep (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground) "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
• S: (v) crawl (feel as if crawling with insects) "My skin crawled--I was terrified"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• sentence frame
• S: (v) crawl (be full of) "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
• S: (v) fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel (show submission or fear)
• S: (v) crawl (swim by doing the crawl) "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"