slithering's Usage Examples:

These movements are sometimes referred to as "slithering" or "crawling", although neither are formally used in the scientific literature.

which provides the eels a climbing substrate to "push against" while slithering upstream.

cat on the left is playing with the Virgin's hem, a snake can be seen slithering out from under her skirt.

Some analyses suggest that elongation and undulatory locomotion (slithering) evolved first, before limb loss.

including shears over comb, clipper over comb, thinning shears method, slithering with standard barber's shears, shear point tapering or razor methods.

an enormous sea beast many arm spans in length that was twisting and slithering around on its stomach.

the movement of entangled polymer chains as being analogous to snakes slithering through one another.

Ian Gardner (born May 5, 1981), nicknamed The Cobra because of his slithering movements on the boxing ring, is a junior-middleweight boxer who was born.

Synonyms:

slippery; slipping; slippy;

Antonyms:

nonskid; trustworthy; rough; nonslippery;