Locomotion

Locomotion

The term locomotion means movement or travel. It may refer to:

* Motion (physics)
* Animal locomotion
** Terrestrial locomotion
* Travel

Locomotion may refer to specific types of motion:
* walking
* running, including trotting
* jumping, including leaping gaits
* crawling
* climbing
* swimming
* flying

Locomotion may also refer to:

* Locomotion No 1, an early steam locomotive
* Robot locomotion
* Shildon Locomotion Museum, in the town of Shildon, County Durham, England.
* Locomotion (TV channel), cable TV channel in Latin America
* Loco Motion (Youth Group), a film and media club based in Essex, UK.
* Locomotion (periodical)

In fiction and entertainment
*"Chris Sawyer's Locomotion", a 2004 computer game by Chris Sawyer
*""Locomotion" (arcade game) is a 1982 arcade game by Konami
* "The Loco-Motion" is a 1960s hit song, originally performed by Little Eva and its accompanying dance.
* "Locomotion", a song on John Coltrane's album "Blue Train" (album)
* "Locomotion", a song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released as a single in 1984
*"Locomotion", a young adult novel in poetic form by Jacqueline Woodson

ee also

*
* Locomotive


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  • locomotion — [ lɔkɔmosjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1771; de locomotif, d apr. le lat. motio 1 ♦ Didact. Action de se mouvoir, de se déplacer d un lieu vers un autre; fonction qui assure ce mouvement. Muscles de la locomotion. ⇒ locomoteur. La marche, mode naturel de la… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Locomotion № 1 — Locomotion № 1 …   Википедия

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  • Locomotion — Lo co*mo tion, n. [L. locus place + motio motion: cf. F. locomotion. See {Local}, and {Motion}.] 1. The act of moving from place to place. Animal locomotion. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Locomotion — (von lat. locus „Ort, Stelle“ und motio „Bewegung“) bezeichnet: ein durch eine Coverversion von Kylie Minogue nochmals bekannt gewordenes Lied von Little Eva (siehe: The Loco Motion), sowie einen Modetanz aus den 1960er Jahren eine… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Locomotion —   [englisch, ləʊkə məʊʃn], geselliger Modetanz; Anfang der Sechzigerjahre in England unter Zugrundelegung einer langsamen, twistähnlichen Musik im 4/4 Takt entstanden. Typisches Beispiel: Little Eva (* 1943) mit »(Do The) Locomotion« (1962) …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Locomotion — es un canal latinoamericano de televisión por cable, que emite 24 horas diarias de dibujos animados. Su sede administrativa se encuentra en Miami (Estados Unidos) y su centro de emisiones en Buenos Aires (Argentina). Creado en 1997, fue… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • locomotion — 1640s, formed in English from L. loco from a place (ablative of locus place ) + motionem (nom. motio) motion, a moving …   Etymology dictionary

  • locomotion — *motion, movement, move, stir …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • locomotion — [n] movement action, mobileness, mobility, motion, moving, progression, travel, travelling; concepts 2,145,697 …   New thesaurus

  • locomotion — ► NOUN ▪ movement or the ability to move from one place to another. DERIVATIVES locomotory adjective. ORIGIN from Latin loco from a place + motio motion …   English terms dictionary

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