locomotion

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Tracks of various North American mammals. (credit: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.)

Any of various animal movements that result in progression from one place to another. Locomotion is classified as either appendicular (accomplished by special appendages) or axial (achieved by changing the body shape). Aquatic protozoans move by ciliary or flagellar appendages or by pseudopods, footlike appendages. Other forms of aquatic locomotion include walking on legs (some arthropods), crawling (by contracting the body muscles, anchoring to the substrate, and extending), and swimming by either hydraulic propulsion (e.g., jellyfish) or undulation (fishes). Terrestrial arthropods and vertebrates move by means of jointed appendages, the legs. Snakes and other limbless vertebrates crawl by means of muscular thrusts against the substrate. Flight is achieved by the forward thrust of wings.

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Movement, or the ability to move, from one place to another. See also gait, amble, gallop (2), rack, trot, walk.

The act or power to move from one place to another.

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Locomotion may refer to:

• Motion (physics)
• Animal locomotion
  • Terrestrial locomotion
• Travel

Locomotion may refer to specific types of motion:

• Gait analysis
• walking
• running, including trotting
• jumping, including leaping gaits
• crawling
• climbing
• swimming
• flying

Locomotion may also refer to:

• Locomotion No 1, an early steam locomotive by George Stephenson
• Robot locomotion
• Shildon Locomotion Museum, in the town of Shildon, County Durham, England
• Locomotion (TV channel), cable TV channel in Latin America
• Loco Motion (Youth Group), a film and media club based in Essex, UK
• Locomotion (periodical), a railway-related magazine

Fiction and entertainment

• Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, a 2004 computer game by Chris Sawyer
• Loco-Motion (arcade game), a 1982 arcade game by Konami
• "The Loco-Motion", a 1960s hit song, originally performed by Little Eva and its accompanying dance and covered by Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 and again by Kylie Minogue in 1987.
• "Locomotion", a song on John Coltrane's album Blue Train
• "Locomotion" (OMD song), a song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released as a single in 1984
• Locomotion, a young adult novel in poetic form by Jacqueline Woodson

See also

• Locomotive

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - bevægelse, bevægelsesevne, befordring

Nederlands (Dutch)
voortbeweging, vermogen tot voortbeweging, motoriek, verkeer, vervoer

Français (French)
n. - locomotion

Deutsch (German)
n. - Fortbewegung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μετα)κίνηση, μετατόπιση

Italiano (Italian)
locomozione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - locomoção (f)

Русский (Russian)
передвижение, путешествие

Español (Spanish)
n. - locomoción

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förflyttning, rörelse, rörelseförmåga, (kring)resande, resor, transport, fortskaffningssätt

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
运动, 转位, 移动

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 運動, 轉位, 移動

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 이동, 보행, 걸음걸이, 여행

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 運動, 移動, 運動力, 旅行

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تحرك, تنقل, سفر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ניידות, תנועה, אמצעי-תחבורה‬

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