Synonyms of barreling

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adjective

as in rushing

Related Words

• rushing
• rapid
• speeding
• running
• swift
• lightning
• racing
• whirlwind
• flying
• hurrying
• careering
• speedy
• rocketing
• hasty
• whirling
• breakneck
• zipping
• brisk
• fleet
• scurrying
• scooting
• meteoric
• bolting
• warp-speed
• scudding
• breathless
• whisking
• expeditious
• ready
• quick
• dizzy
• prompt
• accelerated
• fast
• snappy
• hastened
• rushed
• quickened
• hurried

Dissimilar Words

• creeping
• slow
• crawling
• dragging
• lagging
• leisurely
• tardy
• sluggish
• dilatory
• laggard
• languid
• unhurried
• deliberate
• poky
• poking
• measured
• dawdling
• dallying
• dillydallying
• snail-paced
• snaillike
• inert
• lounging
• lethargic
• inactive
• loafing

barreling

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verb

variants or barrelling

present participle of barrel

as in speeding

to proceed or move quickly

faced with a firm deadline, we barreled through the project at a furious pace

Synonyms & Similar Words

• speeding
• hurrying
• rushing
• scurrying
• driving
• zipping
• racing
• traveling
• trotting
• flying
• chasing
• jumping
• running
• blowing
• scooting
• buzzing
• darting
• blasting
• tearing
• stepping
• scuttling
• ramming
• dashing
• hurtling
• careening
• whirling
• blazing
• zooming
• ripping
• careering
• hustling
• bolting
• rocketing
• shooting
• breezing
• hurling
• bowling
• galloping
• hastening
• coursing
• belting
• humping
• bustling
• pelting
• whisking
• jogging
• haring
• rustling
• motoring
• highballing
• jetting
• bundling
• cannonballing
• nipping
• cracking (on)
• bombing
• beating it
• scampering
• hying
• stampeding
• sprinting
• flitting
• accelerating
• whizzing
• stepping on it
• making tracks
• scudding
• hotfooting (it)
• streaking
• getting a move on
• shaking a leg
• scuffling
• outrunning
• overtaking
• beetling
• quickening
• outpacing
• outstripping
• stepping out
• arrowing
• beelining
• catching up
• fast-forwarding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• creeping
• crawling
• poking
• dragging
• lingering
• hanging (around or out)
• lagging
• poking
• dawdling
• strolling
• loitering
• shuffling
• sauntering
• ambling
• lumbering
• plodding
• dallying
• decelerating
• tarrying
• slowing (down or up)
• dillydallying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of barreling

Verb

Police said the driver of a white Jeep came barreling through the intersection of Frankstown Avenue and Washington Boulevard near the Marathon gas station and hit two other vehicles before stopping in the middle of the road. — Michael Guise, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026

And even in parks, parents and guardians have to keep children stiflingly close, out of the path of all the bionic combos of muscle and machinery barreling through. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2026

The train that flattened Trump and Republicans this year had been barreling down the track for some time. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 4 Nov. 2026

Pucker moments, like barreling down a single-track into a rock ledge, become non-events. — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 2 Nov. 2026

But the Bolts are 0-7 and barreling toward most unfortunate history. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

Whitford’s barreling performance gives A Few Good Men a worthy villain, combining a blindered worldview with self-serving careerism that makes for a depressingly recognizable monster. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026

Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives — shopping for us, working for us, talking to other people’s AI agents for us. — Ellen Thomas, The Verge, 22 Oct. 2026

Younger children play at the soccer fields in the complex, including the one where the truck came barreling through, Trammell said. — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026