hurrying
Going with haste
Hurrying is the present participle of hurry, capturing the act of moving or acting with speed, often because time is short.
Someone who is hurrying rushes through tasks or toward a destination: She was hurrying to catch her train.
The word can also function as a noun for the activity itself: All this hurrying around is exhausting.
Hurrying often carries a sense of pressure or urgency that mere quickness does not.
Rapid forward movement
- scurryingHasty, light-footed motion
- dashingSpiritedly stylish and bold
- sprintingMaximum-speed locomotion on foot
- racingSpeed competition sport
bolting · darting · scampering · galloping · trotting · jogging · hustling · scrambling
Speed up a process
- accelerateIncrease in velocity
- quickenTo accelerate or animate
- hastenTo accelerate or rush
- rushQuick sudden movement
speed · push · press · urge · spur · propel · drive · bustle
rushing
Rapid forward movement
- scurryingHasty, light-footed motion
- dashingSpiritedly stylish and bold
- sprintingMaximum-speed locomotion on foot
racing · bolting · darting · scampering · galloping · trotting · jogging · hustling · scrambling · charging
expedite
Speed up a process
- accelerateIncrease in velocity
- quickenTo accelerate or animate
- hastenTo accelerate or rush
rush · speed · push · press · urge · spur · propel · drive · bustle · scuttle
quick
Moving with speed
brisk · speedy · fleet · nimble · expeditious · hasty · accelerated · zippy · snappy · lively
frenzy
Violent mental agitation
bustle · commotion · hustle · tumult · hectic · frantic · manic · feverish · pandemonium · bedlam
pressing
Requiring immediate attention
- deadlineTime limit for completion
- time-sensitiveRequiring prompt action
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
imperative · urgent · emergency · crisis · desperate · dire · imminent · essential · necessity · compulsion
- rushingrushing, dashing, sprinting, racing, scurrying
- being rushedrushing, running late, scrambling, hustling, time crunch
- delaysdelays, delay, delayed, postponement, postpone
- passenger behaviorboarding, exiting, sitting, standing, waiting
- pedestrian actionswalking, crossing, stopping, waiting, standing
- eager actionsrushing, lunging, grabbing, leaping, pouncing
hurryingcrawling
Moving on hands, knees
creeping · plodding · ambling · trudging · sauntering
hurryingunhurried
Taking one's time
dawdling · taking one's time · delaying · lingering · dallying
hurryingslow
Lacking in speed
careful · methodical · deliberate · measured · painstaking
- hurrying upIncreasing one's speed
- hurrying up and waitingRapid action preceding prolonged pause