Synonyms and Antonyms of falling behind
to move or act slowly
- He lost his footing and fell behind in the relay.
crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging (also lallygagging), moping, poking, shilly-shallying, tarrying
fiddling (around), fooling around, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling
hanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, lounging
ambling, easing, inching, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, staggering, strolling
decelerating, slowing (down or up)
filibustering, procrastinating, stalling, temporizing
bowling, breezing, darting, humping, hurtling, hustling, scrambling, stampeding
galloping, jogging, running, sprinting, trotting
accelerating, quickening, speeding (up)
catching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtaking
barreling (or barrelling), bolting, careering, coursing, dashing, flying, hastening, hotfooting (it), hurrying, racing, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, speeding, tearing, whirling, whisking, whizzing, zipping
