Elie Metchnikoff

The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.

Russian Scientist

Frances Beinecke

The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

American Activist

Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

American Businessman

LZ Granderson

Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.

American Journalist

Josh Blue

The more I move on stage, the more people are just drawn to the movement. The way that I walk and my gait - it's very eye catching. And the way my hand hooks and moves on its own - it's almost hypnotic.

Alfred Adler

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Austrian Psychologist

Katherine Waterston

I was devastated when they stopped making sailors' pants with bell bottoms. There's something sort of spirited about the way they affected a man's gait. They project something good-natured.

British Actress

Sara Cox

I can't do heels - I look like a cowboy in drag. I've a terrible gait, and I'm more at home in wellies, riding boots or trainers. With my dad being a farmer, I was raised in a welly.

English Entertainer

Walter Cronkite

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

Nancy Gibbs

There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

Gait can indicate mood, personality, or health. Pay attention to descriptive adjectives that precede it.

Observational Clue

'Gait' can hint at a unique way of walking that helps in recognizing people.

Unique Identifier

In animals, 'gait' often describes specific movement patterns or breed characteristics.

Animal Locomotion

Gait analysis in medicine reveals information about injuries or diseases affecting mobility.

Medical Insight

In medical contexts, gait is a technical term, not just used for any walk.

Technical Term

Doctors use gait as a diagnostic tool to assess patients' overall health status.

Assessment Tool

 and automatically, the animal switches to swimming. This is amazing. Just changing the global drive, as if you are pressing the gas pedal of descending modulation to your spinal cord, makes a complete switch between two very different gaits. And in fact, the same has been observed in cats. If you stimulate the spinal cord of a cat,

A robot that runs and...

 our prefrontal cortex all the way back to our cerebellum, how music was becoming a neuropsychiatric modality to help children with autism, to help people struggling with stress and anxiety and depression, how deeply Parkinsonian patients would find that their tremor and their gait would steady when they listened to music,

Robert Gupta: Between...

 two so they're coming and I think here comes the injured female so you want to see how she's walking you didn't believe me that she was walking fine even though she's got that injury she's got a little bit of a limp but otherwise that is not a bad walking gait at all she's walking better

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 It's got a gyroscope that helps stabilize it. It's got sensors and a control computer. Here's a Cheetah robot that's running with a galloping gait, where it recycles its energy, it bounces on the ground, and it's computing all the time in order to keep itself stabilized and propelled.

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 to help aid surgeons who work on children with cerebral palsy, to predict the outcome of operations on these children. As you probably know, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome of an operation is if you try and correct the gait.

Torsten Reil: Using...

 It has six legs -- there are the tuned, springy legs. It moves in a gait that an insect uses, and here it is going on the treadmill. Now, what's important about this robot, compared to other robots, is that it can't see anything,

Robert Full: Engineering...

 But soon, the sound of the desert is drowned out by a louder hissing. As a mound of sand races towards them, the pair’s unnatural gait turns into a sprint. The two clamber into a nearby rock face,

Why should you read...

 rigor mortis has set in throughout the body stiffening its muscles giving it the classic shuffling gait of the undead this window shopper is a shuffler a zombies not long for the vertical world

A Handy Zombie...

 they've got that a similar shape and and gait and and bounce to their running stride as well as similar sort of for me they seem like they have similar characters although there's a lot more

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 I'm really surprised about how little lateral movement there is I had expected a far wider side-to-side sway I think the gait might be very similar yes I don't have a problem with that I