Synonyms of motoring

motoring

verb

present participle of motor

1

as in racing

to proceed or move quickly

effortlessly motored past the other runners for a first-place finish

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in driving

to travel by a motorized vehicle

motoring along the highway at the speed limit

Synonyms & Similar Words

• driving
• riding
• automobiling
• racing
• tooling
• taxiing
• rolling
• wheeling
• hacking
• chauffeuring
• joyriding
• dragging

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of motoring

Expect to see a calm and composed figure in the heart of defence alongside Virgil van Dijk this season; and if Liverpool begin motoring towards the top positions, Jacquet will surely be a big part of it. — David Ornstein, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Some manufacturers are trying to mimic the ICE car experience, such as retro-fitting old school motoring noises and gear simulations to entertain understimulated EV drivers. — New Atlas, 29 May 2026

Between the Orion spacecraft seamlessly motoring onward on the left of this image and two boosters mirroring one another on the right, this booster separation is picture perfect. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 26 May 2026

Again, should these residents of our great city be forced to yield the right of way to a delivery bot motoring down the sidewalk? — Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026

The two men high-fived and then put the fish in the livewell before motoring back to the dock to call the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s ShareLunker program. — Kubie Brown, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2026

Still Talking, her final book, will star the same wonderful characters motoring through their days on tides of chat. — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026

In the red zone with the Broncos motoring on a two-minute drill to end the first half Sunday, Nix stepped up in a collapsing pocket and got dragged down by the Commanders’ Preston Smith. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025

Jill Roberts has spent a lot of time motoring around the Georgia countryside holding a weighted stein. — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside, 6 Nov. 2025