Is it possible to have a near tidally locked planet?

I'm working on a story where the characters are stranded on a planet that turns so incredibly slow that it acts like a tidally locked planet, with one side burning and the other frozen. However because the planet still turns, the characters are forced to out-walk it constantly in the habitable strip, chasing the sun. I can't find anything on the internet that even mentions something like this, so I was wondering if a place with this environment is possible.

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