swarming
Crowding together thickly
Swarming describes things moving in large, dense groups—bees swarming from a hive, tourists swarming a landmark, thoughts swarming someone's mind.
The image is of many individuals moving together with apparent purpose or agitation.
A place swarming with something is crowded or overrun: The beach was swarming with jellyfish.
Police or military units swarm a location by converging on it from multiple directions at once.
Bee dwelling structure
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- beesWinged pollinators
- antsSocial colony insects
- locustsSwarming crop-destroying grasshoppers
wasps · hornets · termites · mosquitoes · flies · gnats · aphids · cicadas
Movement to new territory
- herdingManaging animal groups
- flockingGathering in crowds
- streamingReal-time digital delivery
- convergingMoving toward sameness
dispersing · roaming · drift · flux · surging · advancing · spreading · scattering
Arranged to work together
- synchronizedOccurring at the same time
- unifiedCombined into one
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- emergentNewly come into existence
self-organizing · decentralized · networked · distributed · hivemind · murmuration · schooling · flocking
Abundantly full of
- packedFilled to capacity
- congestedBlocked by overcrowding
- throngedFilled with crowds
- overflowingExceeding capacity, spilling out
heaving · dense · massed · crammed · bustling · jammed · mobbed · shoulder-to-shoulder
hive
Bee dwelling structure
locusts · wasps · hornets · termites · mosquitoes · flies · gnats · aphids · cicadas · queen
migration
Movement to new territory
converging · dispersing · roaming · drift · flux · surging · advancing · spreading · scattering · rushing
coordinated
Arranged to work together
- synchronizedOccurring at the same time
- unifiedCombined into one
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
emergent · self-organizing · decentralized · networked · distributed · hivemind · murmuration · schooling · flocking · herding
teeming
Abundantly full of
overflowing · heaving · dense · massed · crammed · bustling · jammed · mobbed · shoulder-to-shoulder · chock-full
chaotic
Totally without arrangement
- franticWildly anxious or desperate
- frenziedWildly out of control
- hecticIntensely busy, almost overwhelming
turbulent · wild · manic · hyperactive · tumultuous · seething · boiling · agitated · restless · uncontrolled
invaded
Entered by force
- overwhelmedDefeated by sheer volume
- floodedCovered with water
- engulfedCompletely swallowed up
besieged · inundated · infiltrated · overrun · swamped · descended · plagued · infested · saturated · permeated
- animal behaviorsswimming, running, walking, jumping, flying
- insect behaviorsforaging, mating, flight, flying, crawling
- colony behaviorforaging, division of labor, caste system, food storage, round dance
- fightingboxing, kickboxing, MMA, judo, karate
- crowd behaviorcheering, chanting, booing, clapping, applause
- crowd movementstampede, surge, crowd surge, rush, mob
swarmingdispersing
Spreading widely apart
scattering · dissipating · fleeing · spreading out · disbanding