Verb
1. move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground;
"The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"2. feel as if crawling with insects;
"My skin crawled--I was terrified"3. be crawling with;
"The old cheese was crawling with maggots"4. show submission or fear
5. swim by doing the crawl;
"European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"