crawler
/ˈkrɔlər/
noun
- A person or animal that moves on hands and knees or close to the ground.
- A slow crawler on the hiking trail held up the group.
- The baby is a fast crawler now and gets into everything.
- The turtle is a steady crawler across the sand.
- A computer program that automatically scans and indexes websites for search engines.
- A web crawler collects data from online stores for price comparisons.
- Google's crawler visits millions of pages every day.
- The website was redesigned to be easier for search engine crawlers to read.
- A vehicle or machine that moves on continuous tracks (like a tank or bulldozer).
- The army's crawler transported equipment across the muddy field.
- The construction crew used a crawler to move heavy rocks.
- A crawler tractor can drive over rough terrain easily.