Synonyms of coursing

coursing

verb

present participle of course

1

as in chasing

to go after or on the track of

after coursing the conspirators for months, the federal agents closed in and made the arrests

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chasing
• pursuing
• tracking
• tracing
• following
• trailing
• escorting
• accompanying
• tailing
• dogging
• hounding
• running
• tagging
• shadowing
• watching
• running after
• hunting
• bird-dogging
• seeking
• observing
• searching (for)
• eyeing
• chaperoning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• leading
• guiding
• heading
• piloting

2

as in traversing

to make one's way through, across, or over

once the threat of terrorism became apparent, fighter jets began coursing that corridor on a daily basis

Synonyms & Similar Words

• traversing
• crossing
• following
• navigating
• walking
• traveling
• covering
• tracking
• transiting
• cutting (across)
• riding
• passing (over)
• proceeding (along)
• going
• hiking
• treading
• perambulating
• peregrinating
• tramping
• running
• crisscrossing
• traipsing

3

as in racing

to proceed or move quickly

racehorses coursing down the track

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of coursing

That hostility coursing through these movies matters, because AI ambitions depend on mass adoption. — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 12 Nov. 2026

The singer-songwriter’s seventh album is their wackiest and funniest to date, with a madcap gleam coursing through its synth-pop portraits of lovable weirdos and suburban dread. — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026

That fateful decision further transforms him into a volatile shapeshifter whose preexisting lack of impulse control is further exploited by the nanos coursing through his veins. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 26 Oct. 2026

The Upper Basin, which includes Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, has tended to be more resilient as its groundwater benefits from melting snow coursing down the Rocky Mountains. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

And then there is the creative energy, coursing through the streets. — Nikkita Nair, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026

Video showed water coursing down the front of the glass case protecting the fabled painting, which was unharmed, according to a gallery press release, as were the six other canvases nearby. — News Desk, Artforum, 18 Sep. 2026

Below the surface, there is a lot of contemptuous finger-pointing about where the anti-AI energy now coursing through the political-media landscape is coming from. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026

White rapids crashed down against the rocks—falling, needless to say, quite some distance—and still more cliffs towered steeply behind me, slender straight waterfalls coursing down them. — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026