Synonyms of speeding

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verb

present participle of speed

as in driving

to proceed or move quickly

a bullet train speeding across the lush countryside

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

speeding

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adjective

as in rushing

Related Words

• rushing
• rapid
• racing
• rocketing
• running
• speedy
• swift
• flying
• lightning
• hurrying
• careering
• fleet
• zipping
• barreling
• warp-speed
• hasty
• bolting
• whirlwind
• breakneck
• brisk
• scooting
• meteoric
• whirling
• scudding
• breathless
• expeditious
• whisking
• fast
• accelerated
• scurrying
• quick
• dizzy
• prompt
• ready
• snappy
• quickened
• hastened
• rushed
• hurried

Dissimilar Words

• slow
• dragging
• creeping
• crawling
• leisurely
• lagging
• tardy
• dilatory
• sluggish
• pokey
• languid
• unhurried
• laggard
• deliberate
• poky
• dawdling
• dallying
• poking
• dillydallying
• snail-paced
• measured
• snaillike
• lethargic
• inert
• inactive
• lounging
• loafing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of speeding

Verb

Other snags are purely visual, notably the capper to the scene where King must toss the bag of ransom millions at a specific time and place, from a speeding elevated train. —Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025

Adjective

Warmer temperatures increase evaporation, drying out rivers, reservoirs, soil and vegetation, and speeding up Earth’s water cycle as more water goes back into the air for precipitation. —John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025

Another house-sized space rock, spanning around 58 feet, is also speeding towards Earth tomorrow, according to NASA, joined by a 35-foot-diameter asteroid expected to get with 500,000 miles of our planet. —Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025

The surveillance video also caught the suspects speeding away after the barrage. —Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025

These could be embedded in smartphones, base stations, drones, and Internet of Things devices, potentially speeding up the arrival of flexible, intelligent 6G networks. —Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025

Last year, there were about 16,500 crashes from speeding alone, causing about 170 deaths and over 6,500 injuries, according to DOT. —Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2025

The light turned red but Cruz continued, speeding through the intersection without slowing down 10 seconds after the light had changed, prosecutors said. —Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2025

For now, however, AI may have the best shot at speeding up space weather preparedness. —Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025

And Paycor modernized its pipelines with Informatica’s cloud tools, speeding up analytics and AI delivery. —Robert Kramer, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025