Synonyms of migrating

migrating

verb

present participle of migrate

as in relocating

to move from one place to another

Every fall, hundreds of college students migrate to this town.

Related Words

• relocating
• traveling
• resettling
• emigrating
• journeying
• touring
• trekking
• transferring
• tripping
• defecting
• voyaging
• pilgrimaging
• wandering
• roaming
• peregrinating
• hopping
• roving
• gallivanting
• traipsing
• knocking (about)
• road-tripping
• perambulating
• jaunting
• rambling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of migrating

All the while, the heat coming from the pan is slowly migrating toward the center of the meat, gently cooking it to my goal temperature. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Japanese laborers had been migrating to Hawaii since the 1890s, mainly to work on sugar plantations. — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2026

Others are considering migrating to Canada, Chile or Brazil, where some moved before coming to the United States, Nampy said. — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

Telecom ultimately cleared the hurdle by migrating from hardware to software, adopting new business models and adapting the regulatory rules that had governed an industry built on landlines. — Anna Demeo, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Watch thousands of migrating monarch butterflies make their winter home in the trees of Pismo State Beach. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026

Across the pond, United Launch Alliance sought to end its dependence on Russian engines for the Atlas V rocket by migrating to the new Vulcan rocket. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026

Carlsbad and other coastal cities south of Oceanside worry that any plan to keep sand on the shoreline north of them would prevent the precious grains of grit from migrating south in ocean currents to land on their own eroding beaches. — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026

The pressure campaign against Iran is now migrating from the Strait of Hormuz to the financial system — and the second-order effects are landing squarely in Europe. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026