Synonyms of hurling

hurling

verb

present participle of hurl

1

as in vomiting

to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth

that meal was so gross I thought I was going to hurl

Synonyms & Similar Words

• vomiting
• heaving
• ejecting
• spewing
• puking
• retching
• barfing
• gagging
• throwing up
• upchucking
• spitting up
• disgorging
• regurgitating
• losing one's lunch
• tossing one's cookies
• expelling
• nauseating

2

as in flying

to proceed or move quickly

a fighter jet hurled through the sky

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

3

as in throwing

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm

hurled snowballs at each other

Synonyms & Similar Words

• throwing
• tossing
• flinging
• slinging
• firing
• launching
• hurtling
• pelting
• heaving
• chucking
• lobbing
• bowling
• casting
• catapulting
• pitching
• pegging
• dashing
• darting
• lofting
• flipping
• rolling
• gunning
• letting fly
• thrusting
• propelling
• ejecting
• precipitating
• projecting
• passing
• shooting
• hooking
• bucking
• impelling
• rifling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hurling

After a bloody skirmish with the orcs and wild men, an imposing figure arrives on horseback, grabbing one of the warriors and hurling him at Galadriel’s approaching horse. — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

Videos showed some masked protesters hurling objects at police as the tear gas drifted across the square. — Jonny Hallam, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

The men rushed on to the plain, setting more trees ablaze and hurling rocks. — Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026

Rookie Robert Gasser got the start for the Brewers, hurling five shutout innings while allowing just three runs and striking out three. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

Last year, Schlittler delivered an all-time coming-of-age moment as a rookie in his postseason debut, hurling eight scoreless innings with 12 strikeouts against the Red Sox in the winner-take-all Game 3 of the Wild Card Series. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026

Belushi’s time on Saturday Night Live was fraught and fruitful in equal measure, the brilliant comedian hurling himself into the backstage drama and onstage virtuosity with similarly bottomless capacity. — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2026

But the ritual has increasingly gotten out of hand, culminating with someone hurling a chair into the crowd during the group’s performance last week in Charlotte, North Carolina, and reportedly sending one fan to the hospital. — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026

Shot in Lancaster, California, in the middle of the desert, Skye throws a milkshake at a car before a group of people from the nearby diner rushes out and joins in, hurling food at the vehicle. — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2026