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Verb
Present participle for to move very slowly (towards something)
crawling
creeping
plodding
limping
inching
dragging
nosing
poking
oozing
slouching
creaking along
edging
lagging
loitering
moping
shuffling
trailing
moving slowly
advancing slowly
shrithing
moseying
toddling
moving at a snail's pace
getting no place fast
schlepping along
sliding
slipping
pushing
easing
nudging
steering
moving
maneuveringUS
squeezing
shoving
manoeuvringUK
easing forward
dawdling
dallying
lingering
delaying
tarrying
dillydallying
diddling
lollygagging
lallygagging
straggling
draggling
shilly-shallying
lagging behind
hanging back
going slowly
trailing behind
limping along
hanging heavy
going on too long
creeping along
going on and on
slowing down
appearing to pass slowly
becoming tedious
wearing on
dragging your feet
procrastinating
dilly-dallying
idling
putting off
stalling
hesitating
dithering
pausing
falling behind
marking time
hanging around
taking your time
taking one's time
hanging fire
temporizingUS
staying
waiting
dropping behind
wasting time
vacillating
temporisingUK
hanging about
mooching
loafing
sauntering
faltering
trifling
staggering
lolling
filibustering
killing time
staying put
pottering about
pottering around
pottering round
fooling around
using delaying tactics
humming and hawing
putting off doing something
goofing off
sitting around
playing for time
warming a chair
playing a waiting game
strolling
slacking
shirking
puttering
drifting
fiddling
batting
drooping
mooning
languishing
stooging
whiling away time
stonewalling
biding
tottering
waiting around
holding back
hanging on
buying time
horsing around
tailing
trudging
dropping
hanging round
losing time
goofing around
retarding
havering
postponing
deferring
protracting
prolonging
wavering
adjourning
falling back
cooling
swithering
goldbricking
taking a raincheck
dragging your heels
suspending action
postponing action
deferring action
letting something slide
kicking the can down the road
holding off
dragging behind
bringing up the rear
slowing up
inching along
falling off
pottering
sitting on one's butt
frittering away
diddle-daddling
scrounging around
shlepping along
bumming around
frittering time away
hanging out
“But then again, he never sat for 45 minutes on the upstairs of a London bus packed with passengers, slowly snailing up the Walworth Road.”
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