Hardly a speed demon

• Snail, e.g.
• Dawdler
• Snail, e.g
• Someone who moves slowly
• Tortoise, e.g.
• Tortoise, e.g

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also slow poke , 1848, American English from slow (adj.) + poke (n.3), the name of a device, like a yoke with a pole, attached to domestic animals such as pigs and sheep to keep them from escaping enclosures. Bartlett (1859) calls it "a woman's word."

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Slowpoke is a weekly comic strip by Jen Sorensen that appears in alternative weeklies and other publications in the United States . Slowpoke began in 1998 as a 24-page book, Slowpoke Comix #1 . Later that year it became a weekly strip, in which format it ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach" [syn: plodder , stick-in-the-mud , slowcoach ]