Synonyms of humping

humping

verb

present participle of hump

1

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort

the farmers had to really hump to get the harvest in before the rains

Synonyms & Similar Words

• laboring
• struggling
• striving
• working
• tugging
• trying
• sweating
• plowing
• endeavoring
• grubbing
• hustling
• toiling
• slaving
• digging (away)
• plodding
• plugging
• slogging
• straining
• drudging
• pegging (away)
• fagging
• travailing
• banging away
• moiling
• attacking
• sweating blood
• beavering (away)
• applying (oneself)
• scratching
• driving
• buckling (down)
• hammering (away)
• exerting
• pitching in
• digging in
• exercising
• trudging
• wading
• grinding (out)
• scrabbling
• essaying
• overworking
• knuckling down
• eking out
• overexerting
• putting out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• breaking
• easing (up)
• slackening
• lounging
• idling
• resting
• hanging (around or out)
• loafing
• chilling
• letting up
• lazing
• bumming
• shirking
• dallying
• lolling
• hacking (around)
• slacking (off)
• goofing (off)
• hanging
• basking
• relaxing
• playing
• unwinding
• reposing
• goldbricking
• footling
• trifling
• dabbling
• dillydallying
• fooling around
• messing around
• vegging out
• doodling
• puttering (around)
• goofing (around)
• monkeying (around)
• hanging about
• pottering (around)
• fribbling

2

as in trotting

to proceed or move quickly

the boat was really humping before the motor started to sputter all of a sudden

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of humping

Campbell began humping the handicap accessible gate, prompting the station attendant in the kiosk to knock on the window to warn him not to, prosecutors said. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2026

Franklin was even humping someone, while Bodhi was covertly trying to eat his own poop. — Mimi Montgomery, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026

She and her son are seen posing in front of a mirror together, before Spears begins speaking in an English accent and seemingly simulating a humping motion while wearing tight shorts and a top that exposes her midsection. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026

That territory has a bounty of middle-age men humping stools and occasionally noticing that death eventually comes for us all. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025

Compounding the cacophony is a Jonny Greenwood score that veers between manic percolation—imagine a xylophone humping a coffeepot—and grandly operatic surges of synth. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025

No more humping every female dog anymore. — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025

Iain Stirling narrates the daily dramas of Peacock’s reality hit, cranking out reliably hilarious commentary about contestants’ back tattoos, dry-humping challenges and mosquitoes that interrupt intimate moments. — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025