Synonyms of stampeding

stampeding

verb

present participle of stampede

as in darting

to move together in a quick and disordered manner and usually in a large group

At the sound of the lunch bell, all five hundred students in the building stampeded toward the cafeteria.

Related Words

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

Dissimilar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of stampeding

Politicians are stampeding to distance themselves from an important industry. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026

Even the adults are too absorbed by their screens to notice a herd of dolls stampeding through a house. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026

The April shooting caused a mass panic on the subway car with straphangers stampeding toward the exits as the train entered the station. — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 5 June 2026

After Grande is seen walking down an aisle, the event appears to be disrupted by a group of stampeding animals. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025

Unfortunately, this all amounted to a 35-7 drubbing for the Jaguars at the hands of the stampeding Rams. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025

The hilariously surreal visual of 17 children stampeding through suburbia like a herd of angry elephants with murderous intent required some clever cinematic trickery. — Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025