Synonyms of zooming

zooming

verb

present participle of zoom

1

as in humming

to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound

a squadron of fighter planes zooming over our heads prompted thoughts of a terrorist attack

Synonyms & Similar Words

• humming
• zipping
• buzzing
• whirring
• whispering
• whizzing
• burring
• hissing
• droning
• sighing
• whistling
• murmuring
• bumbling
• whishing
• purring
• chirring
• thrumming
• cooing
• swishing
• churring
• wheezing
• rustling
• fizzing
• sizzling
• whooshing
• curring

2

as in speeding

to proceed or move quickly

race cars zooming around a track at breakneck speeds

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

3

as in soaring

to rise abruptly and rapidly

zoomed to a supervisory position after only a few short months

Synonyms & Similar Words

• soaring
• increasing
• surging
• skyrocketing
• rocketing
• shooting (up)
• peaking
• swelling
• enlarging
• proliferating
• ballooning
• escalating
• intensifying
• multiplying
• expanding
• mounting
• accumulating
• mushrooming
• snowballing
• waxing
• burgeoning
• appreciating
• heightening
• cresting
• building up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• tumbling
• plunging
• falling
• plummeting
• slumping
• collapsing
• decreasing
• nose-diving
• diminishing
• dropping
• contracting
• lessening
• waning

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of zooming

The latter push has resulted in TVS Motor zooming ahead to become the largest producer of electric two-wheelers in its home base. — Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

With drones zooming around her Rhode Island home, a big backyard tent feels, well, kind of silly. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 June 2026

An introductory video includes views of the planet before zooming down to the Space Coast, flying over to downtown Orlando and zipping into the Dome. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2026

Explore the Outdoors From hitting the water on a paddleboard or kayak to zooming around on WaveRunners, taking boat tours or simply watching for manatees and dolphins, this is a coastal playground with adventure for everyone. — South Seas, Miami Herald, 15 May 2026

Some are zooming around on jet skis in a water tank that's impressively built into the pavilion building that's stood in the Giardini since the 1930s. — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026

There was now a Turn 10 viewing area where fans could get pretty close to the track and experience the deafening sound and body-tingling sensation of cars zooming by at more than 100 miles per hour. — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 3 May 2026

The sophisticated set by ace production designer David Gropman enables Altman’s perpetually moving and zooming camera to drift in and out of two-way mirrors that depict memories and fantasies with both immediacy and a gauzy nostalgia. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 May 2026

But three people jumped on the hood of a police car, breaking its windshield, before piling into a black Nissan with no license plates and zooming north on 69th St. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026