Synonyms of banging away

banging away

verb

present participle of bang away

as in struggling

to devote serious and sustained effort

the design team has been banging away at that project for months

Synonyms & Similar Words

• struggling
• laboring
• striving
• digging (away)
• working
• pegging (away)
• trying
• endeavoring
• beavering (away)
• sweating blood
• applying (oneself)
• tugging
• hammering (away)
• plowing
• sweating
• buckling (down)
• pitching in
• grubbing
• toiling
• humping
• slaving
• hustling
• digging in
• plugging
• grinding (out)
• plodding
• straining
• drudging
• travailing
• eking out
• knuckling down
• slogging
• moiling
• fagging
• attacking
• putting out
• scratching
• driving
• exerting
• exercising
• essaying
• overworking
• wading
• scrabbling
• overexerting
• trudging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• easing (up)
• hanging (around or out)
• letting up
• hacking (around)
• breaking
• slacking (off)
• goofing (off)
• slackening
• chilling
• idling
• lounging
• resting
• shirking
• loafing
• fooling around
• bumming
• lazing
• vegging out
• relaxing
• messing around
• dallying
• puttering (around)
• goofing (around)
• basking
• pottering (around)
• hanging
• playing
• unwinding
• hanging about
• monkeying (around)
• lolling
• reposing
• trifling
• goldbricking
• dillydallying
• footling
• dabbling
• doodling
• fribbling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of banging away

Brian Cashman gets it all the time, but good, from Yankee fans; for them, banging away at Cashman on social media feels like the real national pastime. — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025