Synonyms of crawler

crawler

noun

ˈkrȯ-lər 

as in snail

someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others

he's always the crawler who makes everyone else late

Synonyms & Similar Words

• snail
• slug
• dragger
• straggler
• lingerer
• dawdler
• plodder
• laggard
• loiterer
• slowpoke
• lagger
• delayer
• dallier
• idler
• loafer
• latecomer
• sluggard
• slouch
• lazybones
• lounger
• procrastinator

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• speedster
• scrambler
• hustler
• speeder
• rusher
• go-getter
• hurrier

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of crawler

Traditional search deploys web crawlers to pull in information that matches keywords, but AI aims to answer a question accurately, taking into account intent and context. —Raianne Reiss, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024

For another, crawlers aren’t obligated to obey what a robots.txt file requests. —Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Dec. 2024

That flounder darting in front of the crawler’s camera from the Alkor’s dry lab? —Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024

Before the update, website owners could restrict Google from crawling the results of internal searches, but crawlers at the time were now automatically able to discern which pages were deemed important to index. —Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 Oct. 2024