the ability to move with intention.
Non-fitness abilities that improve with practice (learning) and relate to one's ability to perform specific sports and other motor tasks.
Use of purposeful movements. Fine motor skills are those which involve small movements such as writing, tying laces, and making crafts. Gross motor skills are those involving large movements and include walking, running, riding a bike, and playing ball. People with poor motor skills are often seen as clumsy or uncoordinated.
A measure of the ability of children and adults to move and have normal strength
Skills required to ensure that the balance mechanisms are functioning properly in regard to their relationship with vision. Poor integration will have an effect in an individual's ability to cope when moving around and can effect sport and hand to eye co-ordination.
Motor skills refer to a person's ability to perform co-ordinated movements using a combination of muscle actions. Gross Motor Skills tend to be performed by large muscles and they produce bigger body movements such as running and jumping. Fine Motor Skills tend to be initiated by smaller muscles such as those in the hand and they produce actions such as picking something up between the thumb and fingers or unscrewing the top from a bottle.
The involvement of muscles and limbs, distinguished as either gross motor (involving large muscle groups) or fine motor (involving small muscle groups). “The achievement of muscle tone and the development and inhibition of primitive reflexes are also considered motor skills” (Bailey & Wolery, p. 43).
Skills using the small and large muscles of the body; includes fine and gross motor skills.
A person's ability to use large and small muscle groups. Gross motor skills refer to the use of large muscles in activities such as running and jumping. Fine motor skills refer to small muscle coordination required for things like writing or buttoning a shirt.
Motions carried out by the combination of the brain, nervous system, and muscles.
