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• Advancing and moving forward
• Arrivals and departures
• Arriving, entering and invading
• Backwards, sideways and back and forth
• Bending, twisting and curving
• Boarding and alighting from modes of transport
• Bouncing
• Changing direction
• Crossing and moving through
• Delivering and despatching
• Departing
• Describing movement towards
• Digging
• Direction of motion
• Down and downward
• Emitting and ejecting
• Evicting and forcing to leave
• Falling and dropping
• Fast and rapid
• General words for movement
• Immobility
• Increasing and decreasing speed of motion
• Inserting and forcing things into other things
• Jumping
• Making short, sudden movements
• Messengers and people who deliver things
• Movement of liquids
• Movement on or through water
• Movement through the air
• Moving a long way on foot
• Moving downwards
• Moving firmly on foot
• Moving gently on foot
• Moving in order to avoid contact
• Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach
• Moving quickly
• Moving to avoid being seen
• Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
• Moving upwards
• Not holding the body upright
• Phrases telling people to go away
• Physical gestures of respect
• Places and locations
• Placing and positioning an object
• Pleasant and make-believe places
• Posture
• Pulling
• Pursuing
• Pushing and shoving
• Raising and lowering
• Reclining
• Removing and extracting
• Returning to a place
• Revolving, rotating and spinning
• Runaways and refugees
• Running away and escaping
• Shaking, swinging and vibrating
• Sitting and standing
• Slow and moving slowly
• Speed of motion
• Staying and remaining
• Stretching the body
• Taking someone somewhere or telling them the way
• Throwing
• Transferring and transporting objects
• Turning upside down
• Unpleasant places
• Up and upward
• Visiting
• Walking and walkers