Synonyms of breezing

breezing

verb

present participle of breeze

1

as in flowing

to move or proceed smoothly and readily

we breezed through the line for customs at the airport

Synonyms & Similar Words

• flowing
• cruising
• drifting
• gliding
• sailing
• sliding
• sweeping
• slipping
• rolling
• brushing
• flying
• speeding
• coasting
• racing
• rushing
• streaming
• skimming
• whisking
• bowling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• struggling
• floundering
• trudging
• stumbling
• limping
• plodding
• shuffling
• lumbering
• laboring
• stomping
• stamping
• toiling
• tramping
• shambling
• stumping

2

as in speeding

to proceed or move quickly

the doctor breezed past the people in the waiting room, apparently on his way to an emergency

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of breezing

Detmers was breezing at that point, retiring all nine Royals hitters in the first three innings, on just 41 pitches. — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 27 Apr. 2026

Texas Instruments helped limit Wall Street’s losses after breezing past analysts’ expectations for profit in the latest quarter. — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026

But Texas Instruments helped offset those losses after breezing past analysts’ expectations for profit in the latest quarter. — Stan Choe, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026

Even more than the other chill night-shift doctors, Crus is cool as a cucumber, breezing through patient interactions with a reassuring smile. — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026

The memory foam insole is a dream for long travel days, and the slip-on design makes breezing through TSA feel almost luxurious. — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2026

After breezing through the first two innings, Webb gave up three runs in the third and fourth and needed 56 pitches to get through them. — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026

At the time, most English clubs were breezing through their European matches, with five finishing in the top eight of the league phase of the Champions League and a record nine then making it through to the knockout stages of the three European competitions. — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026

Meadow received the ball at the perimeter before breezing past his man and throwing it down. — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 11 Nov. 2025