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# brachiation

noun (brachiation, uncountable); verb brachiate (brachiate, brachiates, brachiated, brachiating)

«brachiation» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A way of moving through trees by swinging from branch to branch using the arms, as gibbons and some monkeys do. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science lessons about animals and movement it describes how gibbons, orangutans and spider monkeys travel. Children on monkey bars are doing a kind of brachiation. Phrases: "move by brachiation".

### Examples

- Gibbons move through the forest by brachiation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#x1)
- Brachiation lets apes swing fast from tree to tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#x2)
- On the monkey bars we copied brachiation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#x3)
- A gibbon's long arms are perfect for brachiation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#x4)
- Spider monkeys also use their tails during brachiation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/#x5)

### Note

Uncountable science word. Pronounced "bray-kee-AY-shun". It comes from a Latin word for "arm", like "brachial".

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «brachiation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brachiation/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«brachiation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/brachiation.html) on Mova free.