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shuffling

shuffling

3.9
To walk slowly while dragging the feet so they barely lift
  • noun
  • /ˈʃʌflɪŋ/
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  • I could hear the shuffling of papers as she searched for the report.

And the first thing she noticed is there was a slight shuffling with my feet, with my legs.

Examples

  • Yeah, the ice was slick and we fell hard more than once, but we were all of us New Englanders and no strangers to shuffling across an expanse of ice.

  • (PAPERS SHUFFLING)

    Amnesiac (2015)

  • And the first thing she noticed is there was a slight shuffling with my feet, with my legs.

    Dr. Mayim Bialik

  • So we stop and we look at each other and then we hear some feet shuffling around and a McDonald's bag crunching in our room.

  • (SHUFFLING)

    Sneakers (1992)

  • (FOOTSTEPS SHUFFLING)

    The Machine (2013)

  • After a long day, he was only able to move by shuffling his feet across the floor.

  • The elderly man approached the stage with a slow shuffling gait.

Synonyms

shamble
vsshuffling
35 8.0

A slow, awkward walk that drags the feet

is similar but focuses on slow motion rather than awkwardness
shuffle
vsshuffling
11 3.9

A way of walking by dragging the feet along the ground

is the same action but named differently here
shambling
vsshuffling
1 8.6

Walking with slow, dragging steps without lifting the feet properly

is the same action expressed as the usual term
hobble
vsshuffling
1 5.9

A way of walking with difficulty because of pain

describes the same slow motion but without medical cause

Antonyms

march
69 1.8

A steady walk by a group often during a protest or parade

How Fast

sprint
55 2.1
running
108 1.0
walking
337 1.0
shuffling
3.9
plod
2 5.7
creeping
4.6
crawling
1.0

Surface Forms

shuffling singular
shufflings plural

Morphology

shuffling = shuffle (transparent) = shuffle + ing

Standard gerund/nominalization from the verb 'shuffle' meaning to walk by dragging the feet; the noun denotes the action/gait and is directly derived.

Etymology

Shuffling comes from an old word meaning 'to drag' or 'to push', like the common word shove, so a shuffling walk is one where you move slowly by dragging your feet.