Synonyms of ducks

ducks 1 of 2

noun

plural of duck

as in guys

a member of the human race

her coworkers regard her as something of an odd duck

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guys
• men
• people
• lives
• birds
• creatures
• things
• fish
• individuals
• eggs
• humans
• babies
• souls
• customers
• bodies
• beings
• specimens
• sorts
• parties
• characters
• human beings
• faces
• cookies
• devils
• scouts
• mortals
• personalities
• personages
• wights
• sons of man
• stiffs
• heads
• fellows
• slobs
• bods
• brothers
• neighbors
• humanoids
• homos
• hominids
• selves
• celebrities
• fellowmen
• somebodies

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• animals
• critters
• beasts
• brutes
• beasties

ducks

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of duck

1

as in avoids

to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery

don't try to duck your commitment to spending Thanksgiving with your family by claiming you have to work

Synonyms & Similar Words

• avoids
• evades
• escapes
• dodges
• shakes
• eludes
• shuns
• shuffles (out of)
• deflects
• prevents
• eschews
• steers clear of
• fights shy of
• scapes
• weasels (out of)
• eliminates
• stays clear of
• finesses
• misses
• shirks
• gets around
• keeps clear of
• parries
• wards (off)
• excludes
• precludes
• obviates
• rules out
• thwarts
• excepts
• bans
• averts
• circumvents
• foils
• debars
• diverts
• outwits
• foxes
• skirts
• bars
• frustrates
• outfoxes
• bypasses
• outsmarts
• overreaches

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• seeks
• accepts
• pursues
• welcomes
• embraces
• courts
• catches
• contracts
• incurs

2

as in weaves

to move suddenly aside or to and fro

duck behind a pillar before they see us

Synonyms & Similar Words

• weaves
• dodges
• zigzags
• slaloms
• jinks
• turns
• escapes
• sidesteps
• slides
• slips
• skirts
• parries
• avoids
• evades
• eludes
• deflects
• shirks

3

as in dips

to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid

ducked the new camper in the lake as a joke

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dips
• dunks
• drowns
• immerses
• soaks
• submerges
• floods
• wets
• douses
• souses
• submerses
• sops
• moistens
• bathes
• dives
• steeps
• plunges
• thrusts
• drenches

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ducks

Noun

Hewitt shared a carousel of photos to her Instagram on Sunday, featuring baby Scottie in a stroller wagon swathed in a sea-like blue blanket and surrounded by plushie ducks. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2026

Bird flu can cause severe illness and death in chickens, ducks, turkeys and other birds. — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Ancient trees lean over a pond filled with turtles and ducks, and trails weave in and out of various open-air animal ecosystems. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2026

Other quirky finds included five AirPods, three Delta flight pins and a singular Uno card, as well as dental retainers and rubber ducks. — Sadie Chafe, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026

Children have also left behind plenty of toys — including eight mini race cars, three bouncy balls, dozens of assorted figurines, rubber ducks, fidget spinners and other trinkets. — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2026

And when ducks decide to nest in those cover crops, the farm goes out of its way to keep them safe. — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026

Two, three, or four ducks are enough for a choir to break out. — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Oct. 2026

Advertisement To develop GenoMorph, Colossal scientists built an atlas showing how the genetic switches that control facial development turn on and off as embryos grow in chickens, quail, ducks, and pigeons. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 2026

Verb

In the video, the subject ducks his head in the opposite direction of the doorbell camera. — Michael Ruiz , Adam Sabes , Christina Dugan Ramirez , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Julia Bonavita , Peter D'abrosca , Alexandra Koch , Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 3 Feb. 2026

The sun ducks down and sets Conejo Mountain against warm pinks and purples, transforming the ridgeline into an epic silhouette. — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025

Dignitaries would climb up Bab al Silsilah, a narrow limestone street that ducks under an arched gate. — Ryan Byrnes, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025

Mike Johnson ducks Epstein files questions, refuses to swear in Grijalva! — The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025

The way a Newfoundland dog carefully ducks his head to avoid getting bumped by a car trunk has captured hearts across the internet. — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025

Phrases Containing ducks

• make ducks and drakes of
• play ducks and drakes with