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

The Bison won Camelia Bowl games at Sacramento City College’s Hughes Stadium to cap the 1969 and 1970 seasons, stampeding past Montana both times. — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026

Sailing through the Drake Passage is like being on a mountain bike and joining in with a herd of stampeding bison, or like paragliding between Alpine peaks in the middle of the wildest storm. — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026

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

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