locomotion

Meaning

Noun

• The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
• Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.
• A dance, originally popular in the 1960s, in which the arms are used to mimic the motion of the connecting rods of a steam locomotive.

Origin

• From French locomotion, from Latin locō (ablative of locus) + motionem (nominative mōtio), from Latin movēre, present active infinitive of moveō, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-