Synonyms of barrels

barrels 1 of 2

noun

plural of barrel

1

as in loads

a considerable amount

a visit to an amusement park should be a barrel of laughs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• loads
• tons
• dozens
• piles
• chunks
• quantities
• hundreds
• rafts
• bunches
• deals
• stacks
• bundles
• lots
• bushels
• buckets
• slews
• wealths
• plenties
• masses
• yards
• truckloads
• abundances
• shiploads
• carloads
• volumes
• wads
• pots
• sheaves
• mountains
• reams
• gobs
• myriads
• fistfuls
• pecks
• heaps
• all kinds (of)
• boatloads
• stores
• sights
• packs
• scads
• quite a bit
• oodles
• lashings
• basketfuls
• potfuls
• multiplicities
• platefuls
• good deals
• messes
• profusions
• scores
• much
• thousands
• floods
• spates
• plenitudes
• surpluses
• millions
• passels
• seas
• plentitudes
• plagues
• epidemics
• rashes
• multitudes
• hordes
• excesses
• swarms
• trillions
• bonanzas
• overflows
• armies
• oversupplies
• flocks
• overages
• throngs
• superfluities
• hosts
• embarrassments
• redundancies
• crowds
• herds
• deluges
• zillions
• presses
• crushes
• legions
• mobs
• overkills
• droves
• surfeits
• overmuch
• overabundances
• plethoras
• superabundances
• bevies
• gazillions
• jillions
• kazillions
• crams

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ounces
• grains
• shadows
• shades
• molecules
• fragments
• spots
• particles
• drams
• strains
• bits
• atoms
• peanuts
• tastes
• granules
• handfuls
• rays
• specks
• mouthfuls
• dots
• streaks
• touches
• mites
• hints
• scraps
• nips
• licks
• aces
• dabs
• traces
• flecks
• suspicions
• pinches
• sprinkles
• scruples
• shreds
• motes
• crumbs
• glimmers
• pieces
• sections
• driblets
• dashes
• pittances
• shots
• drops
• portions
• nubbins
• sprinklings
• smidgens
• little
• flyspecks
• whits
• shortages
• morsels
• scintillas
• iotas
• tittles
• jots
• modicums
• lacks
• deficits
• smatterings
• deficiencies
• smatters
• wants
• absences
• scarcities
• famines
• inadequacies
• insufficiencies
• dearths
• undersupplies
• poverties
• paucities

2

as in tins

a metal container in the shape of a cylinder

a trash barrel

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tins
• drums
• buckets
• cans
• canisters
• pails
• tin cans
• cannikins

3

as in pipes

an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages

barrels of fine wine aging in the winery's cellar

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pipes
• casks
• kegs
• hogsheads
• drums
• tubs
• puncheons
• tuns
• firkins
• butts
• cans
• vats
• kilderkins
• rundlets
• cisterns
• scuttlebutt

barrels

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of barrel

as in races

to proceed or move quickly

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• races
• speeds
• zips
• rushes
• flies
• drives
• travels
• hurries
• scurries
• trots
• jumps
• chases
• scoots
• bowls
• darts
• runs
• bolts
• buzzes
• blows
• dashes
• rams
• tears
• motors
• shoots
• steps
• blasts
• rockets
• belts
• scuttles
• jets
• pelts
• zooms
• bombs
• bundles
• rips
• courses
• blazes
• cannonballs
• hares
• whirls
• jogs
• cracks (on)
• hies
• humps
• careers
• hurls
• breezes
• highballs
• whisks
• nips
• hurtles
• rustles
• hustles
• bustles
• beats it
• careens
• hastens
• makes tracks
• gallops
• steps on it
• hotfoots (it)
• beetles
• sprints
• shakes a leg
• scuds
• gets a move on
• streaks
• stampedes
• flits
• scampers
• arrows
• whizzes
• accelerates
• steps out
• scuffles
• outruns
• overtakes
• outstrips
• outpaces
• quickens
• catches up
• beelines
• fast-forwards

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crawls
• pokes
• creeps
• lags
• drags
• lingers
• hangs (around or out)
• pokes
• loiters
• tarries
• strolls
• dallies
• saunters
• dawdles
• shuffles
• lumbers
• ambles
• plods
• dillydallies
• slows (down or up)
• decelerates

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of barrels

Noun

As Tuesday’s election barrels toward them, Becerra and Hilton traded barbs and barnstormed California in a relatively sedate race to succeed Democrat Gavin Newsom, who is wrapping up his final term as governor and considering a run for president. — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026

Master distiller Owen Martin selected rye whiskeys aged between eight and 11 years, and finished some of them for 15 to 23 months in peach brandy barrels, and some of which for six to 12 months in toasted oak. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2026

The pipeline, which crosses the Straits of Mackinac, released about 31,000 barrels of mostly propane and butane into the atmosphere over the next four days, Enbridge said. — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026

The Orange team opted to lean forward and put their hands on the barrels, while the Gray team did not. — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2026

Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Friday that a supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of oil struck a naval mine, exploded and caught fire while using an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported. — Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026

The world is facing a fuel crisis as Ukraine, Iran and Houthi militants attack refineries in Russia and the Middle East, reducing global capacity by millions of barrels per day. — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026

On this day in 1605, English authorities caught a man in the cellar underneath the House of Lords in London, surrounded by (badly hidden) barrels of gunpowder. — Lucia Barnum, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Oct. 2026

Saudi crude production fell below 7 million barrels a day for much of the war’s first six months, down from more than 10 million before the conflict, and recovered to about 8 million in September, according to the International Energy Agency. — Steven John, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Verb

This creates a truly enormous explosion of energy that barrels into the galaxy at large like a tsunami. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026

Surveillance video shows three vehicles circling the parking lot before a white Toyota Tacoma barrels through the storefront, shattering glass and sending employees running. — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Negotiations over those details are likely to conclude easier if the different groups can reach agreement over insurance subrogation, as the session barrels into its final weekend. — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026

Each episode barrels forward with the logic of a live-action cartoon, hijacking the visual language of everything from My Dinner With Andre to Dog Day Afternoon, while cramming in references to pop culture, video games, and Canadian esoterica. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026

The biggest question mark is connecting the dots from Guernsey, Wyoming to the Cushing, Oklahoma oil hub that ships barrels down to the Gulf Coast refining complexes and export terminals in Texas and Louisiana. — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 13 May 2026

Read on to discover the best time to spot the fast-moving shooting stars as Earth barrels through the debris trail shed by Halley's Comet. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 May 2026

Working from his own screenplay, Cronin barrels over the gaping plot holes — a doctor might have some thoughts here — and gets to the good stuff with the family at home in squirm-inducing close quarters, a live-in demon resting in her bedroom. — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026

But Lumet and screenwriter Frank Pierson ease up on the laughs as Sonny’s predicament grows more helpless, allowing the audience to feel his desperation as the drama barrels toward a tragic finale. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026