(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Totter.

Lissajous figure alternation ambling ambulation anile back-and-forth backpacking cautious circumspect claudicant collapsing coming and going crabbed crawling creeping creeping like snail debilitated deciduous declining declivitous decrepit decurrent deliberate descendant descending dilapidated doddered doddering doddery down down-reaching downcoming downfalling downgoing downhill downsinking downward drooping dropping easy ebb and flow falling faltering feeble flagging fluctuation flux and reflux foot-dragging footing footing it footwork fossilized gentle gerontal gerontic going on foot gradual groggy halting hiking hitchhiking hitching hobbled hobbling hoofing idle indolent infirm languid languorous lazy legwork leisurely limping lumbering marching moderate mossbacked moth-eaten mummylike on the decline on the descendant on the downgrade on the skids on the wane oscillation palsied papery-skinned pedestrianism pendulation perambulation plummeting plunging poking poky ramshackle ravaged with age reciprocation relaxed reluctant rhythmic play ricketish rickety rocky run to seed rusty sagging sauntering seesaw seesawing senile setting shaky shifting shriveled shuffling sine wave sinking slack slothful slow slow as death slow as molasses slow as slow slow-crawling slow-foot slow-going slow-legged slow-moving slow-paced slow-poky slow-running slow-sailing slow-stepped sluggish snail-paced snaillike spidery spindly staggering stricken in years strolling submerging subsiding teeter teeter-totter teeter-tottering teetering teetery tentative thumbing thumbing a ride timeworn to-and-fro toddling tortoiselike tottery tramping treading trudging tumbledown turtlelike unhurried unsteady ups and downs vacillation variation vicissitude waddling walking wavering weak wigwag withered wizened wobbly