clacking
Rapid hard sounds
Clacking is the sharp, repeated sound of hard objects striking together—the clacking of typewriter keys, the clacking of heels on marble, the clacking of train wheels over track joints.
The word imitates the sound itself.
Her knitting needles kept up a steady clacking.
Entering text via keyboard
- keysLock-operating instruments
- clickingMaking short sharp sounds
- keystrokesButton presses when typing
- mechanical keyboardSwitch-based typing device
fingers · tapping · spacebar · enter · backspace · typist · touch typing · hunt and peck
Handheld clicking percussion
- flamencoRhythmic Spanish dance style
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- tap dancePercussive footwork performance
- maracasHandheld gourd rattles
claves · wooden blocks · drumsticks · dice · billiard balls · beads · dominoes · knitting needles
Enamel-covered chewing structures
- chatteringQuick, repetitive sounds
- denturesRemovable artificial teeth
- jawBone holding teeth
- coldLow temperature state
typing
Entering text via keyboard
- keysLock-operating instruments
- clickingMaking short sharp sounds
- keystrokesButton presses when typing
mechanical keyboard · fingers · tapping · spacebar · enter · backspace · typist · touch typing · hunt and peck · keycaps
castanets
Handheld clicking percussion
- flamencoRhythmic Spanish dance style
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- tap dancePercussive footwork performance
maracas · claves · wooden blocks · drumsticks · dice · billiard balls · beads · dominoes · knitting needles · chopsticks
teeth
Enamel-covered chewing structures
- chatteringQuick, repetitive sounds
- denturesRemovable artificial teeth
- jawBone holding teeth
gears
Toothed rotating machine parts
loom · mill · clockwork · sprockets · mechanism · pistons · lever · assembly line · factory · sewing machine
- footstep soundsfootsteps, stomp, thud, thump, clop
- machine soundshumming, buzzing, whirring, clanking, grinding
- typing soundsclick, tap, tapping, clicking, keystroke
- rhythmic soundsdrumbeat, heartbeat, ticking, clapping, tapping
- talkingtalking, chatting, conversing, gabbing, jabbering
- clicksmouse click, double-click, left click, right-click, click sound