Synonyms of hitching

hitching

verb

present participle of hitch

1

as in yanking

to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion

kept hitching up his pants because they were too big in the waist

Synonyms & Similar Words

• yanking
• jerking
• pulling
• lurching
• twitching
• tugging
• grabbing
• bucking
• shaking
• jolting
• bumping
• hoicking
• dragging
• tearing
• snatching
• staggering
• jouncing
• jigging
• ripping
• jogging
• jiggling
• lugging
• plucking
• tweaking
• wrenching
• pitching
• snapping (up)
• joggling
• wringing
• wresting

2

as in connecting

to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole

she escaped out the window by using a makeshift rope of bedsheets and clothing she'd hitched together

Synonyms & Similar Words

• connecting
• coupling
• integrating
• linking
• stringing
• yoking
• interconnecting
• hooking
• chaining
• combining
• joining
• interlinking
• concatenating
• compounding
• conjugating
• catenating
• interlocking
• welding
• dovetailing
• articulating
• intermeshing
• wiring
• cementing
• cording
• fusing
• coalescing
• uniting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unhitching
• disconnecting
• separating
• uncoupling
• splitting
• dividing
• detaching
• parting
• disengaging
• unlinking
• disjoining
• unchaining
• disuniting
• disjointing
• dissevering
• unyoking
• severing
• cleaving
• rupturing
• sundering

3

as in securing

to put securely in place or in a desired position

hitched the trailer to the back of the car

Synonyms & Similar Words

• securing
• fastening
• clamping
• catching
• anchoring
• fixing
• mooring
• setting
• wedging
• embedding
• implanting
• lodging
• entrenching
• stuffing
• ingraining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• loosening
• unfastening
• pulling
• loosing
• extracting
• yanking
• tearing (out)
• unloosing
• prying
• uprooting
• unfixing
• unloosening
• wresting
• rooting (out)
• prizing

4

as in hitchhiking

to travel by securing free rides

her brother hitched across the country after he graduated from college

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hitchhiking
• bumming
• hijacking
• thumbing
• stowing away
• carjacking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hitching

The union called on the city to add hitching posts to the park where unattended horses can be secured. — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 22 June 2026

The union also backed a separate City Council bill that only has eight sponsors, which would make several changes to horse carriage regulations, including more training and hitching posts in the park to tether the horses. — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 19 June 2026

Investing in business development companies often means hitching our wagons to the market’s most prominent asset managers. — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026

Within two years of being published, Longfellow’s book had sold fifty thousand copies, and Lewis recognized the commercial appeal of hitching a sculpture to a popular story. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 8 June 2026

The developmental vehicle returned to Earth empty, while its crew remained behind at the orbital outpost before hitching a ride home in March 2025 with Boeing's SpaceX competitor. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 3 June 2026

More urgent and concerning is the possibility of winter ticks hitching a ride on mule deer that migrate into Alaska. — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2026

What’s more, all of them operate or are members of outside media ventures, meaning that MS NOW, NBC News, CBS News and others are hitching their corporate fortunes to people whose top priority may be the health of their own endeavors and not always those of the company employing them. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026

Economist Jayati Ghosh, who researched India's COVID response, estimates some 80 million migrant workers tried to return home, walking and hitching rides in searing summer heat. — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026