LUGGING Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

lugging

verb

present participle of lug

as in hauling

to cause to follow by applying steady force on lugged the lawn mower out into the backyard

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as in carrying

to support and take from one place to another I don't understand why he's always lugging all of his books around when his locker is right over there

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Recent Examples of lugging The French photographer and director has been inseparable from the monogrammed suitcase for the last 13 years, lugging it from the steamy Amazon jungle to the confines of the North Pole. — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 2026 Even girls of eleven or twelve could be seen lugging elevated humps behind them, like small unhappy camels. — CBS News, 29 Oct. 2026 This deal includes a T-PEN stylus with 4,096 pressure levels, making creating digital art and writing feel as natural as possible without lugging around all your paints, pens, and canvases. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026 Rather than lugging around a big bag or backpack, which may cause problems at security checkpoints, grab this foldable tote that can fit in the palm of your hand when not in use. — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2026 Unusually for an executive of such power, Daunt, who is sixty-three, spent more than twenty years running his own bookshops in the leafy parts of London—lugging boxes, placing orders, and performing other Meg Ryan-ish chores. — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 Items like clothing and shoes are easy to return; but lugging a whole rug back to UPS? — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2026 Accounting is not a very physical job, but tell that to the KPMG gnomes who just spent weeks lugging around gold bars in a secret Swiss cavern. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026 Trying to hike with one of these turbines usually meant lugging around heavy mounting poles and complex external charge controllers. — New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2026

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Verb

Pitcher said crews are still hauling large boulders and rockfall more than a week later.

— Kelly Werthmann, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2026
Adapting to the shock of higher prices meant that Crippen, who was hauling merchandise for online retailer Amazon, pushes the limits on the federal rules regarding driving time to increase time behind the wheel and lift earnings.

— Kris B. Mamula, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2026

Definition of hauling

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The development is part of China’s broader push to establish a low-altitude economy covering drones, cargo aircraft and passenger-carrying vehicles.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2026
Competence doesn’t require carrying the entire arrangement yourself.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of carrying

Verb

The first daily chart, going back to July, shows PJP rallying through the summer, topping in late August, and pulling back into October before advancing again.

— Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026
With a tighter opening, the octopus added a step, pulling the remaining arms through before squeezing its head and mantle through separately.

— Reuters, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of pulling

Verb

Some experts have questioned whether Russia can meet the schedule for diesel deliveries, in part because of the complexities of transporting the oil within Russia to its ports and thence to its destination.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Then the Iran war sent the prices of diesel and fertilizer soaring, which increased the costs of transporting beef and growing feed.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of transporting

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When a 69-year-old doctor refused, security officers forcibly removed him, dragging him down the aisle bloody, concussed, and with a broken nose and missing teeth.

— Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2026
The clip sees the singer in Hollywood and Paris, dragging a golden skeleton across the city landscapes.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of dragging

Verb

The Hope spent much of its time ferrying sailors and the wounded from other ships or ports to military hospitals, and like the Comfort, it too was attacked multiple times, though each attack failed, usually just missing the ship.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2026
Serve’s pitch also extends to intra-office shuttles, repair shops ferrying parts, and peer-to-peer exchanges like Facebook Marketplace.

— Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of ferrying

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