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say it: krawl
crawl is a verb and noun meaning "move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground". It carries 8 recorded senses.
swim by doing the crawl
“European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl”
water sport
a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crawl come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.