creeping

mateleminen (present participle of)
The act of something that creeps.
1824, Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons

It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite (..)