Synonyms of trotting

trotting

verb

present participle of trot

1

as in jogging

to go at a pace faster than a walk

had to trot to keep up with the tour guide's quick pace

trotted around the bases after hitting a home run

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jogging
• running
• galloping
• sprinting
• racing
• hurrying
• dashing
• skipping
• rushing
• scampering
• speeding
• tripping
• leaping
• scooting
• scurrying
• zipping
• bounding
• hustling
• loping
• cantering
• springing
• blazing
• tearing
• zooming
• buzzing
• bowling
• humping
• barreling
• blasting
• whirling
• shagging
• hurling
• scuttling
• hurtling
• coursing
• bolting
• careening
• hastening
• whisking
• blowing
• ripping
• rocketing
• bustling
• jetting
• rustling
• breezing
• belting
• ramming
• pelting
• shooting
• haring
• nipping
• pattering
• hying
• stepping (along)
• cannonballing
• footing (it)
• bombing
• legging (it)
• hotfooting (it)
• hoofing (it)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• strolling
• shuffling
• sauntering
• ambling
• dragging
• lingering
• shambling
• creeping
• crawling
• poking
• lagging
• dawdling
• loitering
• trudging
• plodding
• dallying
• tarrying
• lumbering
• limping
• hobbling
• dillydallying

2

as in racing

to proceed or move quickly

now trot along and get washed up for supper

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of trotting

Quickley countered by trotting upcourt and sinking another 3 over the rookie. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026

Christiane Amanpour, who parlayed a job as a news assistant on CNN‘s foreign desk into a years-long globe-trotting assignment for the news giant, plans to step away from the media company in June. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026

For well-heeled, globe-trotting diners, Noma offered an escape from modernity and the sensation of communing with something more elemental and earthbound. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026

That’s a compelling arc that the show did absolutely nothing with, instead trotting him out for a limp reveal before Daryl murdered him just as quickly. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2026

Jeon Do-yeon, who plays the family’s matriarch, is colorfully slinky as a globe-trotting party widow, a vain, compulsively seductive narcissist who macks on her daughters’ men like a Real Housewife given a villain’s edit. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026

Raccoon City is but one setting in the video games’ globe-trotting canon. — Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026

Truth Or Consequence was recorded at the El Coyote Café in Los Angeles and is the first live album from the globe-trotting Australian punk-rockers, winners of seven ARIA Awards. — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2026

Only the boy’s early obsession with the keyboard—initially discouraged by his parents—pointed to his destiny as a globe-trotting concert pianist, a composer in the major classical genres, and a fluent essayist and autobiographer to boot. — Matthew Gurewitsch, Air Mail, 29 Aug. 2026