Advanced Verbs to Describe the Way Things Move

hey everyone today want to teach you some new verbs and they are well they're kind of advanced verbs but they are all about movement these are verbs that you can use to describe different types of movement and what I've done is that I've put them in categories to help you better understand the meaning of the verb but also give you an idea as to when you might use these verbs so let's begin with walking and running if you're talking about that movement walking and running there are different verbs that you can use you can use strut and if somebody is strutting it's talking about the way somebody is walking and it is more of very confident walk perhaps even an arrogant walk as well and you could say that that they are strutting the next one is stagger and to stagger means to walk with great difficulty almost as if you are about to fall over and often think you would use this verb in the the present tense like you're talking about something that's happening right now and you would say he is staggering or she is staggering and also think it's commonly used when referring to somebody who who maybe has had too much to drink they've had lot to drink they don't really have lot of control over what they're doing and they're walking with great difficulty then you could say that this person is staggering then we have the verb to bolt and this is just to move really fast almost like run and you might bolt to get somewhere for example often would use this if I'm talking about trying to get to an airplane and I'm late and might say wow bolted to the airplane was running behind and had to run bolted to that airplane the next verb is slip and this is talking about moving that you're you're moving quietly so that somebody doesn't notice you and often you're going to follow this verb with preposition so you might slip by someone or slip past someone both of those mean the same thing you're just trying to get by this person without being noticed you could also slip inside or slip outside of some place maybe you forgot something at work and you don't want your boss to see you you might slip inside the office and get whatever you need to get and then you're gonna need to slip outside because you don't want anybody to see you and then we have the verb to drag one's feet now this is an idiom and it means that you are moving reluctantly you're moving slowly but you really don't want to be moving forward and you could say well you know you're you're dragging your feet so for example let's say that well maybe you and we're traveling somewhere and we're late we need to get to the gate and I'm like okay we need we need to go we need to bolt to that airplane plan but you just want to take your time little bit maybe you're like hey let's go let's go get snack before we get on the airplane maybe I'll say Hey you know stop dragging your feet we need to go we need to bolt now this idiom can also be used in other situations as well it doesn't always have to be talking about movement it could be referring to progress as well so if you have some work that you need to do but you're trying to avoid doing it you are procrastinating you could also say then that you're dragging your feet that you're trying to avoid working on some project you don't want to do it think we've all been there before but maybe your your colleague your co-worker or even your boss might come over and tell you look you need to finish this project stop dragging your feet now let's talk about some verbs that you can use if you're driving or flying you're in the car you're in the plane and well one thing we could say is hitchhike to hitchhike and this means that you get free ride with someone in in vehicle so typically you're talking about driving you're you're on the road you're standing on the road you got your thumb out and you are trying to hitchhike to some location and perhaps somebody would stop and pick you up to hitchhike now think it don't think it's as common nowadays in some places people might even say it's dangerous but just so you know in case you see somebody doing it on the side of the road they are trying to hitchhike another verb which think is very common nowadays is carpool to carpool with someone or carpool with others because it refers to traveling by car in small group either to protect the environment or just to save money perhaps save on using gas and and people will carpool to work or they will carpool to school and they'll ride together in small group to carpool then we have the verb LeapFrog and this just means to take turns moving ahead of each other so think you would use this to describe situation in which you're driving maybe on the interstate one person is passing the other and then they pass you back and then you pass them again and back and forth you go and you could refer to this situation and you are leap frogging each other to Leap Frog and think this this happens when people perhaps are driving on an interstate and you want to pass car and you go in front and then you're like okay I'm in front now and then next thing you know they pass you they just LeapFrog you and then you want to pass them again that is the situation in which you might use this verb or or hear somebody talking about it to LeapFrog then there's the verb swerve to swerve and you could use this if talking about driving or flying and what it means is it's sudden change in Direction especially if somebody has been moving in straight line and then they suddenly change directions and swerve to the left or swerve to the right to swerve and finally we have the verb sore which is really for flying because it just means that you were flying high and you could describe plane and say that the plane is soaring through the air it is flying high it is soaring now let's talk about some verbs that you could use to describe the way perhaps certain animals might move and as tell you these verbs will well I'll tell you an animal that think of and just to give you something to associate the word with so you could use the verb Glide to Glide and this just means continuous motion and what think of is perhaps bird Birds might glide through the air or maybe you're talking about like swan or duck the way it moves across the water and you could say that it is gliding it is just just smooth continuous motion now we could also say Slither and this is talking about moving by by sliding and twisting and almost always would think of snake and you would say that the snake slithers that is how snakes move they they twist they slide and they Slither or you could use the word wobble think of well think of penguin because it's talking about like moving you're like going back and forth from side to side and you're walking with you're walking in way that shows that there is poor balance because when Penguins walk they they do they kind of shake and they almost look like they're about to fall over they don't have very good balance and you could then say that they look like they are wobbling they're just wobbling along and that is just that's how they move then we have the verb Gallop which think is often used to to describe the way horse moves because it refers to an animal who is running and all four feet are off the ground at the same time they're running the the horse is Galloping and then there is the verb wiggle and I've included this verb because think you could use it with if you're holding an animal and you're holding the animal and maybe the animal does not want to be held so it's going to start wiggling it's going to move back and forth from side to side up and down and they're just these really small quick movements because maybe the animal is trying to escape perhaps you're holding puppy and the puppy wants to get down and it just starts wiggling to wiggle now let's talk about some verbs that you can use to well talk about situations so in this case it's not really always going to be physical movement that you're referring to but we're talking about situation that you may need to move in one way or another let me give you some examples about what I'm talking about so the first one have for you is approach to approach and this just means to get nearer and nearer to someone or something now we could use this verb to describe some actual physical distance some situation could say well hey we are approaching our final destination we are getting nearer and nearer to this destination but you could also use it if there is some problem or situation that you don't know how to solve and you could say something like okay how are we going to approach this issue how are we going to get closer to it and in that case you could use the word approach how are we going to approach this issue how are we going to approach this problem what is our plan what are we going to do because we need to we'll get closer to it in order to solve it or or remedy some situation how are you going to approach this then we have the verb circumvent and what it means to circumvent something is to basically avoid something usually in clever way you're trying to go around some type of obstacle for example maybe well situation that all of us have is well we have to pay taxes and perhaps there is some type of tax we we want to avoid we want to we want to get around this and you might try to circumvent the tax law and could say well we discovered this new way to circumvent the tax laws and and we don't have to pay this tax so if you want to circumvent something you you're just trying to avoid it you're trying to go around it in some clever way and then we have the verb smuggle to smuggle something is to to move something secretly and often think you're we're talking about something illegal so you might hear it being used in the context of drugs people might smuggle drugs you could also smuggle other people but in either case you're talking about moving something secretly and yes it's often illegal to smuggle next is lag and this just means that well you're making slow progress and it's usually behind some other people so in that case it's quite often that you would follow this verb with the preposition behind to lag behind someone or or you're lagging behind you're making slow progress and well you're behind everyone else you are lagging and then we have the verb spiral which it means that something some situation it's getting worse and worse and it's becoming more difficult to control and quite often you would probably hear that entire phrase and you'd say that some situation it is spiraling out of control that's that's not good thing you don't want any situation to spiral out of control so hope this lesson was easy to follow hope it was easy to understand these verbs by by breaking them into these different categories because that is the way wanted to approach this lesson that that is how wanted to approach this situation because the next time that you see someone moving hope you'll be able to identify that if if you see somebody strutting or maybe you see them staggering or perhaps you see somebody on the road hitchhiking you'll be able to associate that movement with the correct verb so that you can more accurately express your thoughts opinions and ideas as always would encourage you to listen for these verbs try to identify them if you're reading something or even use them in conversation if you happen to be talking about the way something moves that's all for right now will see you next