Sprawl

Sprawl can refer to:

  • Sprawl (grappling), a defensive technique in wrestling and martial arts used to prevent a takedown.
  • Urban sprawl, also called suburban sprawl
  • The Sprawl, the metropolitan region stretching from Boston to Atlanta in the same named William Gibson's fiction trilogy

Sprawling can also refer to:

  • Sprawling (posture), a common posture among tetrapods, with the limbs on either side of the body.

Famous quotes containing the word sprawl:

    “The landscape of the northern Sprawl woke confused memories of childhood for Case, dead grass tufting the cracks in a canted slab of freeway concrete. The train began to decelerate ten kilometers from the airport. Case watched the sun rise on the landscape of childhood, on broken slag and the rusting shells of refineries.”
    —William Gibson (b. 1948)