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controlled falling that humans applaud instead of fearing for the small drunk pilot involved
means Walking with the short, unsteady, lurching steps of someone just learning how — typically a small child or an unsteady adult.
from From the verb 'toddle,' which surfaced in English around the 16th century with no certain ancestry — its origins are genuinely murky. It likely belongs to a cluster of similar wobbly words like 'totter' and 'toddle,' possibly imitative of the rocking, side-to-side gait it describes. The Scots and northern English dialects kept it warm for centuries, where 'a wee toddler' was as natural as the unsteady walk itself.
- physics truth
- each step is a fall caught just in time
- energy cost
- toddlers walk with three times an adult's effort
- word origin
- linked to to-and-fro, an unsteady wandering motion
- daily mileage
- new walkers can take 14,000 steps a day
prince george — british royal child photographed toddling at kensington palace, 2015-2016
baby yoda — the child character toddling through the mandalorian, star wars series 2019-2023