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
  • Bird flight
  • Bat flight
  • Insect flight
  • Jet propulsion
  • Fin and flipper locomotion
  • 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)