Nonlocomotor movements are movements performed in place without changing location and include actions like stretching, bending, circling, swinging, swaying, and rotating parts of the body. Stretching involves extending parts of the body, bending moves joints, circling moves body parts in a circular motion, swinging sways parts forward, side to side or back, and rotating turns the body around its central axis.

1. Nonlocomotor
Movements

2. Nonlocomotor movements are
movements that you do without
moving away from your place.

3. It is done in your personal
space.

4. It includes stretching,
bending, circling, swinging,
swaying, and rotating.

5. Stretching
To stretch is to extend a part
of the body as if to make it longer.

7. Bending
To bend is to move a joint of
the body.

9. Circling
To circle is to move a body
part in circular.

11. Swinging
To swing is to sway a body
part forward, sideward, or
backward.

13. Rotating
To rotate is to turn the body
on its axis.