locomote
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of locomote
First recorded in 1825–35; back formation from locomotion
Explanation
To locomote is to move from one place to another. If your siblings' popcorn munching is annoying you during family movie night, you might want to locomote to a chair on the other side of the room. Locomote isn't used much anymore — you're probably more familiar with related words like locomotive and locomotion. All of these words share the Latin roots loco, "from a place," and motio, "motion." So whenever you're moving from spot to a different one, you can use this unusual verb: "It's time to locomote to Spanish class, see you later!"
Vocabulary lists containing locomote
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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 ● Jul. 29, 2022
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 ● Jun. 9, 2022
They locomote, consume and proliferate all on their own.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2015
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 The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.
"If you please, Miss Clorinda, I tink I will locomote home; I ain't accustomed to sich goings on myself; dey isn't de fashion in de Piney Cove basement."
From A Noble Woman by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
The near 700,000 Black folk who arrived in L.A. between 1940 and 1970, who locomoted the City of Los Angeles streamliner or rode a grumbling Greyhound or braved the crucible of driving.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...
From Time Magazine Archive
I followed him down the long hall with my hands resting on my hips and my shoulders not-so-subtly open, praying he wouldn’t turn around and see me locomoting like a fool.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2012
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