go along

verb

went along; gone along; going along; goes along

intransitive verb

1

: to move along : proceed

2

: to go or travel as a companion

3

: to act in cooperation or express agreement

go along with the crowd

Synonyms

• 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

Morris went along with it, but in the wake of the Bucs’ 35-7 defeat in October 2009, some of his players ignored the edict. —Michael Silver, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025

Sell went along with him for the day. —Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 7 Oct. 2025

Billy reluctantly goes along with it, while Mary, watching far away in Scotland, folds her disappointment up like laundry and gets on with business of waiting for her two friends to snap out of it. —Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025

Behind the scenes, that has come from a team thinking deeply about what works for Republicans online; but the rest of the party can’t quite go along yet. —David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 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