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locomoting

locomoting is the present participle and gerund of locomote.

Meaning of locomote

Verb

locomote (third-person singular simple present locomotes, present participle locomoting, simple past and past participle locomoted)

  1. To move or travel (from one location to another).
    • ‘Lucy and her kind did not locomote in anything like the modern human fashion,’ insists Tattersall.2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 394

Questions about locomoting

What is locomoting the present participle and gerund of?
Locomoting is the present participle and gerund of locomote.

Words near locomoting in the dictionary

  1. locomote
  2. locomoted
  3. locomoter
  4. locomotes
  5. locomotility
  6. locomoting
  7. locomotion
  8. locomotions
  9. locomotive
  10. locomotive engineer
  11. locomotive engineers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: locomoting (page history and authors); locomote (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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