Locomotion Explained

Locomotion means the act or ability of something to transport or move itself from place to place.

Locomotion may refer to:

Motion

• Motion (physics)
• Robot locomotion, of man-made devices

By environment

• Aquatic locomotion
• Flight
• Locomotion in space
• Terrestrial locomotion

Biological locomotion

Animal locomotion

• Animal locomotion
  • Climbing
  • Crawl (disambiguation)
  • Flight
  • Fish locomotion (swimming, others)
  • Gait analysis
    • Horse gaits
      • Trot (horse gait)
  • Jumping
  • Running
  • Slithering, limbless terrestrial locomotion
    • Snake locomotion
  • Swimming
  • Walking

Fine and gross motor skills

• Fine motor skills (smaller muscles; fine movements)
• Gross motor skills (larger muscles; large movements)

Microbial locomotion

• Microswimmer
• Protist locomotion, locomotion of unicellular eukaryotes
• Bacterial motility

Arts, entertainment, and media

Clubs

• Loco Motion (Youth Group), a film and media club based in Essex, UK

Games

• Loco-Motion (video game), a 1982 arcade game by Konami
• Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, a 2004 computer game by Chris Sawyer

Music

• "The Loco-Motion", a 1962 song by Little Eva; covered by Kylie Minogue in 1987
• "Locomotion" (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark song), 1984
• "Locomotion", a 1958 song by John Coltrane from Blue Train

Publications

• Locomotion (periodical), a railway-related magazine
• Locomotion, a young adult novel in poetic form by Jacqueline Woodson

Television

• Locomotion (TV channel), cable TV channel in Latin America

Other

• Locomotion No. 1, an early steam locomotive by George Stephenson
• Locomotion Museum, in Shildon, England
• Travel

See also

• "Loco-Emotion", a song on Kix's album Cool Kids
• Locomotive (disambiguation)
• Locomotor (disambiguation)