"crawl about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to move on hands and knees or on one's belly. Example: The baby began to crawl about the room, exploring every nook and cranny.
He loved to crawl about No Man's Land and scare the enemy".
When wood lice are placed in dry air, they crawl about actively but without direction until they become gradually dehydrated.
There was another item, in the crawl, about Sally Hansen Cosmetics, but that's not the name he saw.
A few, like the walking catfish and the mudskipper, are able to crawl about on land, to find food or new habitats.
Two berated him, then two others forced him to crawl about 50 meters to the guard tower while pelting him with rocks to simulate mortar fire, Private Sepeda recalled.
In fact, the entire house is an image, a duplicated, living image of itself and its occupants, whose stairs we tramp, whose thresholds we cross or recoil from, whose basements we crawl about in - not once, but twice.
"All my lousy life I've crawled about in the mud!
One claimant crawled about for weeks in a wheelchair, an oxygen mask strapped to his face.
It pops out of, desk drawers, bookshelves and a hidden safe, crawls about like a fiddler crab, chokes people and plays concertos.
If I didn't know better, I would say the 78-year-old artist, whose health has been patchy lately, jumped on the printing table and crawled about on the painting.
Crawling about like a silky crimson caterpillar and capturing prey by spitting goo, the velvet worm hardly seems like an evolutionary milestone.
