Usually means: Swinging arm-to-arm through trees.
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  1. brachiation: Merriam-Webster
  2. brachiation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brachiation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. brachiation: Vocabulary.com
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  6. brachiation: Wiktionary
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  9. Brachiation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  11. brachiation: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  12. brachiation: FreeDictionary.org
  13. brachiation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. brachiation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. brachiation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. brachiation: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (brachiation)

▸ noun:  (zoology) Movement by swinging the arms from one hold to the next.

Similar:
swinging, stemming, promotion, armlifting, cross-crawl, range of motion, motioning, hand traverse, crabwalk, kick, more...

Opposite:
pronograde, quadrupedal, terrestrial

Types:
monkey bars, jungle gym, more...

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Similar:
swinging, stemming, promotion, armlifting, cross-crawl, range of motion, motioning, hand traverse, crabwalk, kick, more...

Opposite:
pronograde, quadrupedal, terrestrial

Types:
monkey bars, jungle gym, more...



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