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say it: KRAW-ling
crawling is a noun meaning "a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body". It is pronounced /ˈkɹɔlɪŋ/ — KRAW-ling. It carries one recorded sense.
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 crawling 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.