TRAIL

(COME AFTER) [verb] - to (allow to) move slowly along the ground or through the air or water, after someone or somethingKatherine, your skirt's trailing in the mud! [I usually + adverb or preposition]As the boat moved slowly forward, he trailed his hand in the water. [T]If a person or group is trailing, the competitor is winning.The Swiss team are trailing by 6 points. [I usually + adverb or preposition]The election is only two weeks away, and still the Nationalist Party is trailing (behind) the Liberals. [T; I + behind]Trail can also mean to move slowly and without energy.The delegates trailed back into the conference room for the afternoon session.After a mile or two the youngest children were trailing behind.