# locomotion

> English word · Noun · IPA /ləʊ.kəˈməʊ.ʃən/ · frequency rank #33,715

## Definitions
1. The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
2. Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming, brachiating or flying.
3. A dance, originally popular in the 1960s, in which the arms are used to mimic the motion of the connecting rods of a steam locomotive.

## Etymology
From French locomotion, from Latin locō (literally “from a place”) (ablative of locus (“place”)) + mōtiōnem (“motion, a moving”) (nominative mōtio), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”).

## Easily confused with
- **locomotive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/locomotion-vs-locomotive)

## Common misspellings (15)
`lcoomotion`, `llocomotion`, `loccomotion`, `locmootion`, `locommotion`, `locomoiton`, `locomosion`, `locomotino`, `locomotionn`, `locomotoin`, `locomottion`, `locomtoion`, `locoomtion`, `loocmotion`, `olcomotion`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/locomotion