Crawl
Crawl verb - To move slowly with the body close to the ground.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Stargate SG-1 once had a contest in which, according to the crawl at the bottom of the screen, a viewer could win "a roll on the show".
Source: Tyop on the Cover - Some monsters still have an escape roll option; some are insubstantial or gelatinous so you literally push through, the rest you can only assume you crawl back out their mouth.
Source: Just Eat Him -
The closing credit start as usual but then the music suddenly slows to a crawl and stops before being replaced by a very eerie tone as the pictures continue to roll.
Source: Anime / Samurai Champloo
Cite this Source
Roll and Crawl. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crawl/roll
Crawl & Roll. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/crawl/roll>.
Roll or Crawl. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/crawl/roll.
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