crawl Signification, définition

Signification de crawl en français

• 0 to go forward using your hands and knees -- ramper

  • The boy crawled under the bed to hide. Le garçon rampa sous le lit pour se cacher.

  • The baby’s crawling now. Le bébé rampe / marche à quatre pattes maintenant.

• 1 (of an insect) to walk -- ramper

  • a bug crawling up my arm un insecte grimpant sur mon bras

• 2 to move or happen too slowly -- (se) traîner

  • traffic crawling along la circulation avançant au pas

  • The day seemed to crawl by. Le jour semblait traîner en longueur.

• 3 filled with too many of a particular type of people -- grouiller de

  • a movie theater crawling with teenagers un cinéma grouillant d’adolescents

• 4 [ singular ] a slow speed -- ralenti [ masculine ]

  • to move at a crawl se déplacer au ralenti

• 5 [ singular ] a swimming stroke on your front -- crawl [ masculine ]

  • Can you do the crawl? Sais-tu nager le crawl ?

• 6 to move slowly along the ground -- ramper

  • The injured dog crawled away.

• 7 (of people) to move on hands and knees or with the front of the body on the ground -- marcher à quatre pattes

  • The baby can’t walk yet, but she crawls everywhere.

• 8 to move slowly -- se traîner, avancer au pas

  • The traffic was crawling along at ten kilometres per hour.

• 9 to be covered with crawling things -- grouiller (de)

  • His hair was crawling with lice.

• 10 a very slow movement or speed -- (au) pas

  • We drove along at a crawl.

• 11 a style of swimming in which the arms make alternate overarm movements -- crawl

  • She’s better at the crawl than she is at the breaststroke.