vrooms

Accelerates with noise

Vrooms is the sound of an engine revving or a vehicle accelerating rapidly.

The word imitates the noise itself—a rising, rumbling roar.

As a verb, to vroom is to make this sound or to move with it: The motorcycle vroomed past.

Children often say it while playing with toy cars.

engine-sound

rumbles

Deep rolling sounds

  • growlsLow threatening vocalizations
  • purrsVibrates with contentment
  • roarsLoud, deep cries

revs · idles · hums · throbs · thunders · snarls · bellows · drones · reverberates · vibrates

acceleration

revs

Engine rotation cycles

roars · accelerates · guns · races · tears · blasts · floors · launches · rockets · surges

playful

toy car

Miniature auto for children

imitation · pretend · sound effect · toddler · play · imagination · push car · racetrack · toy truck · pedal car

Opposites
engine sound/activity

vroomsidles

Passes time uselessly

stalls · purrs · hums · dies · cuts out

speed/motion

vroomsstops

Ceases to continue

halts · brakes · idles · stalls · decelerates

Family

vroom, vroomed, vrooming

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G