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

Although Texas, Missouri, Ohio and North Carolina went along, Indiana did not -- despite cajoling and insults from the president and the possibility of primary challenges. —Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2025

Why does the family even go along with his plans? —Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025

There’s also a couple of areas that fall along the side of the middle temporal gyrus, this big hunk of meat that goes along the whole temporal lobe. —Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025

But her singularity really became apparent when, in a night very much devoted to crowd-pleasing, Erivo took some time to please her own innermost muse, trusting that the crowd that had paid four figures each to attend would go along for the detour. —Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Dec. 2025

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