WHEELS Synonyms: 126 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of wheel

as in car

slang a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels now that I've got wheels, I can go to the outlet mall

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wheels

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verb

present tense third-person singular of wheel

as in swings

to change the course or direction of (something) wheeled the bike around sharply to see what had fallen off

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as in rotates

to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis wheeled the bicycle's tires around to see if they were balanced

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as in revolves

to move in circles around an axis or center she wheeled around and around until finally she got dizzy and fell down

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as in curves

to turn away from a straight line or course the highway wheels to the west as it forms an arc that bypasses the city

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straightens

as in turns

to change one's course or direction upon hearing the construction workers' suggestive remarks, she wheeled around to glare at them

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Recent Examples of wheels

Noun

Elimar, the ground floor restaurant, buzzes at breakfast with a spectacular spread including giant wheels of parmesan and sides of prosciutto, fruit, egg and pancake stations, and a gluten-free section. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026 The plane remained airborne without flaring the nose to force the wheels onto the ground. — David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 His genius was marketing the Tesla as less a car than a shiny new tech gizmo on wheels. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026 Movingstyle Portable Smart Monitor This smart monitor can be moved around and comes perched on a stand with wheels for easy portability around the office! — George Yang, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2026 Electricity travels from the rotating wheels through a custom conductive hub to a solar controller built into the frame. — New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026 Early bird prices for the device, which resembles a GoPro on wheels, start at $549, with shipping scheduled to begin in October. — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026 When a shuttlecock is positioned between the wheels, friction between the rotating surfaces accelerates it and sends it over the net. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026 Two of the spacecraft's three reaction wheels were found to be inoperable, while its cold-gas thruster system also experienced some loss of functionality. — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 31 Aug. 2026

Verb

The duo then wheels the mower down the walkway and loads it onto their trailer before taking off. — James Taylor, CBS News, 18 June 2026 The trio rebuild the tower and Guerrero goes up again, pulling the line for about four minutes more before the group takes down the tower, wheels the cart away from the window and walks away. — John Annese, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026 The robot wheels forward on flat ground, raises its legs in a motion similar to a dog climbing stairs, and then resumes rolling where the terrain allows. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026 Stripped to her underwear and tied to a chair, Evelyn begs for her life as Gein wheels out a corpse, wraps its long-dead fingers around the handle of a hammer, and brings both inanimate objects down on Evelyn’s head. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025 Not only are flights plentiful, affordable, and brief—the journey, wheels up to wheels down, is just shy of two hours—the Windy City has long been home to one of the country’s most vibrant and diverse restaurant scenes. — Katie Chang, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 In a video posted to Instagram, the 47-year-old HGTV host wheels two carry-ons through an airport terminal. — Colson Thayer, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheels

Noun

When the sequence was complete, the roof had disappeared into the rear of the car, turning this enormous Cadillac into an open-top grand tourer.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2026
But in other cases, cameras may be pointed toward a park that was used as an example in the demonstration, and not toward cars.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of car

Verb

Investor attention is currently shifting toward a growing divergence within technology equities, as market capital rotates away from mega-cap tech giants and into the AI infrastructure supply chain.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Traveling at roughly one mile per second, the LRO orbits from pole to pole every two hours as the moon rotates on its own course about 60 miles below the spacecraft.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of rotates

Verb

The aircraft, a C-17, is taller than any commercial vessel; ten feet above her head, the ceiling curves like a spaceship.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
But plenty of long-range computer models continue to show a future for the system, most as a tropical storm headed west toward the Caribbean, although plenty also show a potential track that curves north of Puerto Rico.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of curves

Verb

That in turn feeds ‘The Ticker’, the basic on-screen representation of the score and ‘The Computer’, another programme that turns that raw information into the more intricate graphics that appear on the screen.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Teaching students to actively hunt for where logic breaks turns them from passive consumers into sharp, critical evaluators of AI systems.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of turns

Noun

Its growing fleets of electric motorcycles and buses have been less exposed to the fuel-price shock than peers elsewhere on the continent, and have seen demand rise.

— Nana Menya Ayensu, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Every window of every building the bus crawled past opened a severe yearning in me, as though my life here had become abstract or theoretical.

— Hisham Matar, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of bus

Verb

Instead of floating crosses in, Saka either whips his deliveries low near the six-yard box or works a slightly more central position to cut the ball back with a firmer connection.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 26 June 2026
The vessel bends, blocks, and whips the wind into complex micro-currents before the air ever hits the sails.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026