Ground level activities were categorized into walking, slip or trip, transfers (e.g., sit to stand or moving from bed to chair), falling from furniture (e.g., bed or couch), picking an object up from the ground, or standing task (e.g., washing dishes).
For anyone who still has some energy after dinner and a day of walking, slip into a lounge at one of the trendy hotels to see which celebrities are in town.
Participants were presented with the following hypothetical scenario: "While walking, you slip on ice and fall down.
Dancers walk, slip and dash into the wings with artful casualness.
But this last experience explains why New York lost its No.1 ranking as a walking city, slipping to seventh place -- behind our present hometown, Portland, Ore .(No.4).
These days, "war walking" involved slipping a tablet in a backpack and strolling up and down a road.
To make physical exercise and daily activities easier, they used: cane, walking poles, slip-resistant material on shoes and walking frame.
The Ali G actor took the cane, did a Chaplin-style walk, slipped, made to grab the wheelchair for support, propelling the woman headlong off the raised stage and into the crowd.
The rims of some of the pitchers of the viny plant, which grows in the tropical lowlands in parts of Southeast Asia and the Malay Archipelago, are slick when conditions are humid, so insects walking there readily slip into the enzyme-rich, prey-digesting fluid inside the vessel.
Frictional forces, such as the traction needed to walk without slipping, may be beneficial; but they also present a great measure of opposition to motion.
The floor was awash with art magazines, fashion magazines, and fan zines, an endless sea of imagery, and you practically couldn't walk without slipping on something.
