The word crawl has a number of uses:
- Crawling is often used is describing early motor developments in infants. Crawling is performed with one's stomach on the floor. Bilateral movements of the arms and legs facilitate movement. This is not to be confused with [creeping], on the hands and knees.
- In swimming, a front crawl is one of techniques used to propel oneself in water.
- In television, a news crawl is a moving line of text usually put at the bottom of the screen.
- The Star Wars opening crawl begins each of the six Star Wars films, explaining that episode's place in the entire saga.
- To crawl the World Wide Web or a similar medium is to visit a large number of sites, following many or all hyperlinks. The term is often used to describe how search engines gather their data. See also web crawler.
- Crawl may also refer to the roguelike computer game Linley's Dungeon Crawl, or to the dungeon crawl style of gaming in general.
- "Crawl" is the title of a song by Soul Asylum from their 1995 album Your Dim Light Shine.
- "Crawl" is the title of a song by Damageplan from their 2004 album New Found Power.
- "Crawl" is the final track by Alkaline Trio off their 2001 album From Here To Infirmary.
- "Crawl" is the title of a song by Thisway that appeared on their self titled album released on the Warner Bros. label in 1999, and was used in the final scene ever shown on the WB Network
- "Crawl" is the title of a song by a New Zealand rock band, Atlas, from their 2007 album Reasons for Voyaging
- "Crawl", is the title of a song by Kings of Leon from their 2008 album Only by the Night
- "The Crawl" is the title of a song by Placebo from their 1998 album Without You I'm Nothing
- "Crawl" is the title of a song by Tori Darke from her 2009 album Tori Darke
- Crawl is Chris Brown's second single from his album Graffiti
