STAMPEDING Synonyms: 102 Similar and Opposite Words

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.

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Recent Examples of stampeding 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

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When New York last reached the NBA Finals in 1999, Brunson was just 3 years old, darting around locker rooms while his father, Rick Brunson, was a backup point guard for the Knicks.

— Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
Everyone else is darting glances back and forth between us.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026