go along

verb

went along; gone along; going along; goes along

intransitive verb

1

: to move along : proceed

How is the project going along?

He made it up as he went along.

2

: to go or travel as a companion

I asked if I could go along with them.

3

: to act in cooperation or express agreement

go along with the crowd

4

: to be part of something

the top job and all the stress that goes along with it

Synonyms of go along

• progress
• do
• proceed
• march
• get along
• come along
• come
• go
• go off

Examples of go along in a Sentence

everything was going along swimmingly until you interfered

Recent Examples on the Web

Why would Charli go along with it? —Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2026

Another similar assumption is that since LLMs are tuned by AI makers to be sycophantic, the AI might computationally be gauging that the best way to make the user feel good is by going along with a delusion-crafting chat. —Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026

What’s ahead Most Democrats went along with other spending bills, but not Homeland Security. —David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026

Our military leaders would never go along with these actions violating their oath to the Constitution. —Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for go along

• evensong
• livelong
• overlong
• vietcong
• agung
• belong
• birdsong
• furlong
• headlong
• headstrong
• lifelong
• plainsong