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

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

Another ewok then proceeded to moonwalk on the Today plaza before grabbing Roker’s leg and humping it. — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 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

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

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

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