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# locomotion

«locomotion» in Mova's school dictionary: **the ability to move from one place to another, or the way…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (locomotion, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Locomotion is the ability to move from one place to another, or the way an animal or person moves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locomotion/#m1)

2) (history) Locomotion is also the name of one of the first steam railway engines (Locomotion No. 1, 1825). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locomotion/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and PE lessons it covers how animals move — walking, running, hopping, slithering, swimming, flying — and the body parts used (muscles, bones, fins, wings). In history lessons, steam locomotion changed travel. Related: locomotive (train engine). Phrases: «means of locomotion», «animal locomotion».

### examples

- Fish use their fins for locomotion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locomotion/#x1)
- Snakes have a special kind of locomotion without legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locomotion/#x2)
- Walking on two legs is human locomotion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locomotion/#x3)
- Muscles and bones work together for locomotion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locomotion/#x4)
- In PE we practised different locomotion skills, like skipping and hopping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locomotion/#x5)
- Locomotion No. 1 pulled the first public steam train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locomotion/#x6)
- He {150} also found fault with a house built by Athene because, being unprovided with the means of locomotion, it could never be removed from an unhealthy locality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locomotion/#x7)

### note

Uncountable, formal or scientific word for moving. Adjective and noun: locomotive (a railway engine). From Latin «loco» (from a place) + «motion». Plants are not capable of locomotion, though they move in other ways (turning to light).

### Trees and pragmatics

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