In specific terms, the word locomotion refers to the movement made by a person, an animal, a microorganism, an apparatus or a machine to move from one place to another, to move in space. Locomotion varies in terms of shape, structure, speed and other elements according to the type of subject to which we refer.
Locomotion comes from the physical phenomenon known as movement. Thus, movement always means a change of position in space. Locomotion is the movement that allows the subject (be it a person or a machine) to move and, in addition to acquiring another position, to change places. Locomotion is a possibility that only living beings and some machines or devices created by man have that, in any case, must have some method of propulsion such as motors or energy.
Locomotion varies depending on who performs it. While some animals fly, others crawl, others run and others walk, some being able to combine several of these movements but not all. The human being is the only animal that constantly moves bipedally by its own means and is one of the many that cannot fly.
At the same time, there are other types of locomotion artificially created by humans whose main objective is to travel medium or long distances faster and faster. Thus, the alternative means of locomotion to the regular march of man are many: bicycles, automobiles, trains, airplanes, ships and even transport whose energy is generated by the use of animals such as horses, oxen, dogs or camels. All these means of transport, except those drawn by animals or by humans such as a boat, need energy to function and, therefore, are the ones that produce pollution of some kind on the environment (although some of them do so in a tiny amount). In the same way, they are those that allow and allow human beings to travel enormous distances in a very short amount of time, which is why their utility today is extremely great.
