Synonyms of hooking up

hooking up

verb

present participle of hook up

as in traveling

to come or be together as friends

former classmates who hooked up and started a business together

Synonyms & Similar Words

• traveling
• hanging (around or out)
• associating
• rubbing shoulders (with)
• messing around
• rubbing elbows (with)
• palling (around)
• taking up with
• falling in with
• connecting
• running
• being friends with
• mixing
• joining
• collaborating
• keeping company (with)
• bonding
• relating
• mingling
• sorting
• getting on
• getting along
• befriending
• chumming
• consorting
• consociating
• cooperating
• companying
• fraternizing
• hobnobbing
• coupling
• linking
• rallying
• attaching
• tying
• grouping
• teaming
• allying
• siding
• socializing
• clubbing
• affiliating
• interrelating
• wedding
• leaguing
• knotting
• banding
• colluding
• conjoining
• confederating
• ganging
• friending

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• avoiding
• splitting (up)
• shunning
• breaking up
• snubbing
• alienating
• estranging
• dispersing
• cold-shouldering
• splitting
• disbanding
• severing
• divorcing
• dissociating
• sundering
• disjoining
• disuniting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hooking up

Schroeder’s sister Georgi Aubin and Clark’s friend Rob Evors denied sleeping together in the season, but were caught on a hot mic talking about hooking up for months. — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026

The mood is already ruined after you get busted hooking up in a bar's bathroom. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026

Cohn lived a secret life, hooking up regularly with gay hustlers. — Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

This is like the complete inverse of Tom Sandoval and Raquel hooking up at Coachella. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 July 2026

Striking a balance between mellowness and fun is an imperative for a cohort that’s drinking less, hooking up less, and staying in more. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026

As the arrows on the chart indicate, the red line (sellers) is hooking down and the green line (buyers) is hooking up. — Nishant Pant, CNBC, 7 July 2026

The term first popped up during the June 21 episode of Love Island USA, when Kenzie Annis and Corbin Mims were shown hooking up in bed. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 29 June 2026

To make entertaining more fun, plug your speaker or outdoor TV into an electrical outlet, or make a frozen margarita after hooking up your blender. — Sarah Scott, Southern Living, 28 June 2026