Synonyms of speeding

speeding 1 of 2

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
• languid
• unhurried
• laggard
• deliberate
• poky
• dawdling
• dallying
• poking
• dillydallying
• snail-paced
• measured
• snaillike
• lethargic
• inert
• inactive
• lounging
• loafing

speeding

2 of 2

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
• 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
• careening
• whirling
• hustling
• hurtling
• shooting
• jogging
• motoring
• rocketing
• breezing
• bowling
• hastening
• bolting
• galloping
• coursing
• hurling
• whisking
• rustling
• haring
• humping
• bundling
• belting
• jetting
• nipping
• bustling
• cracking (on)
• pelting
• highballing
• bombing
• cannonballing
• 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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of speeding

Adjective

As officers were examining the shooting site, a separate patrol unit stopped a speeding white 2019 BMW 330i near South 11th and Keyes streets and discovered one of the occupants was the third victim, a man who had been shot in the arm. — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026

The Texas Department of Transportation’s anti-speeding campaign that begins Saturday, July 18, features the story of a Fort Worth teen who was killed in a 2022 crash. — Mary Ella Hastings updated July 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026

The passengers had to self-eject from the speeding cab. — Andrea Sachs The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026

As if rapping from a speeding time machine, Wiki flows about yellow taxis turning into Uber Eats over an instrumental that cruises from a soft breakbeat into a total breakdown of glitchy scratches courtesy of Lil Ugly Mane. — Lei Takanashi, Pitchfork, 16 June 2026

Josh is faster than a speeding linebacker, more powerful than a defensive lineman, and able to leap tall safeties in a single bound. — Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026

Most speeding violations in Ohio add two points to a driver's license, with 12 points resulting in a suspension. — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Nov. 2025

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

Verb

At first, people used drum machines as metronomes — to keep a drummer from speeding up or slowing down and to keep everyone on the same rhythmic wavelength. — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026

That industrial network matters because increasing missile output involves more than speeding up final assembly. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

However, speeding up a stage that wasn’t the constraint doesn’t make the overall work any faster. — Illia Smoliienko, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Every dollar spent speeding up the Blue Line or North Central Service also speeds up the daily commute for the Northwest Side residents and suburban workers who ride those lines every day. — Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026

Spithill steers Oracle’s space-age, 72-foot catamaran to its eighth straight victory, speeding past Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand in the winner-take-all Race 19 on San Francisco Bay. — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

Medium and high speed spinning will drain more water from your duvet, speeding up the process, but could compromise the fabric or thread. — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2026

As the officer attempted to catch up to a speeding vehicle, the motorcycle crashed. — Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026

The department found the video of their own officer speeding. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026