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# brachiation

«brachiation» in Mova's school dictionary: **A way of moving through trees by swinging from branch to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (brachiation, uncountable); verb brachiate (brachiate, brachiates, brachiated, brachiating)

### meaning for a pupil

A way of moving through trees by swinging from branch to branch using the arms, as gibbons and some monkeys do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about animals and movement it describes how gibbons, orangutans and spider monkeys travel. Children on monkey bars are doing a kind of brachiation. Phrases: "move by brachiation".

### examples

- Gibbons move through the forest by brachiation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#x1)
- Brachiation lets apes swing fast from tree to tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#x2)
- On the monkey bars we copied brachiation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#x3)
- A gibbon's long arms are perfect for brachiation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#x4)
- Spider monkeys also use their tails during brachiation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#x5)

### note

Uncountable science word. Pronounced "bray-kee-AY-shun". It comes from a Latin word for "arm", like "brachial".

### In the corpora

- [Swinging arm over arm is called brachiation; gibbons are the fastest apes in the trees, reported at around 50 kilometres per hour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brachiation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.