locomote
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of locomote
First recorded in 1825–35; back formation from locomotion
Example Sentences
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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
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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