RIGS Synonyms: 87 Similar and Opposite Words

rigs 1 of 2

noun

plural of rig

as in carriages

a horse-drawn wheeled vehicle for carrying passengers romantic couples enjoy being driven in the old-fashioned rig through the park

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rigs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of rig

as in supplies

to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity carefully rigged each diver with the required equipment before starting out

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Recent Examples of rigs

Noun

Fraser and his team ended up building lighting rigs using old tungsten lights — a lot of them. —

Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026 The grandiose space’s massive stage and high-caliber lighting rigs promise extravagant parties and ceremonies that will light up the city’s social calendar. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026 The diesel shock could force some truckers to park their rigs — lifting rates for operators left standing. —

Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026 Air traffic controllers are tasked with making sure that planes and firefighting rigs share the space safely, using different radio frequencies to communicate with pilots landing the planes and firefighters responding to the scene to help, McCloskey said. —

Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026 Starting under $28,000, the Slate is pitched at a wildly different price point than the luxury overlanding rigs currently dominating the space. —

Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 18 Mar. 2026 The ship is equipped with three carbon-fiber masts standing about 226 feet tall, mounted on distinctive balestron rigs. —

Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2026 The unit includes three rigs in federal waters, offshore and onshore pipelines, and the Las Flores Canyon Processing Facility. —

ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026 One interesting difference is that bitcoin mining rigs—which range from $600 to a few thousand dollars—are still substantially cheaper than Nvidia's enterprise GPUs, which are usually $30,000+. —

Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026

Verb

There’s infectious joy and wonder as the Eridian who will come to be known as Rocky begins communicating with Ryland, at first with rudimentary signals and then with more complex language once Ryland rigs a translation device. —

David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026

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Noun

Regional blackouts and network carriages jam up the in-market viewership.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Rather than stressing over social niceties, sitting in ornate carriages and snacking on cream cakes, Sophie daydreams while scrubbing floors and delivering tea.

— Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 26 Feb. 2026