Meanings of locomote in English

The one big thing plants can't do is move, or, to be more precise, locomote.

But he'd overestimated, Shake saw, his capacity to locomote in the aftermath of a kick to the nuts.

The latest in bipedal robots were given a run at the AAAS meeting yesterday, with a selection of two-legged ramblers that locomote like a human.

These critters, some 150 described species and another 40 or 50 still awaiting names, locomote by beating rows of tiny hairlike structures called cilia.

"An elephant seal can outrun a human, though they don't run, they more or less 'locomote' along with their flippers."