TOSSING Synonyms: 149 Similar and Opposite Words

tossing

verb

present participle of toss

as in swaying

to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions the boat tossed to and fro in the heavy seas

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as in fidgeting

to make jerky or restless movements tossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep in the heat

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as in throwing

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm toss that football over here

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as in dumping

to get rid of as useless or unwanted we need to go through the basement and toss whatever we don't use

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Recent Examples of tossing Femi regained control, tossing Uso to the mat with his brute strength. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2026 Rather than tossing the curtain and liner in the trash, head to the laundry room with your bottle of vinegar. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 28 June 2026 Using a grater, grate the butter into pieces over flour mixture, tossing to coat butter. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026 Paula quickly gets rid of the gun, tossing it in the garbage of the police station bathroom, but pockets the flash drive. — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 1 July 2026 Roughly chop the smashed cucumbers before tossing them with the vinaigrette. — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 July 2026 Jude, meanwhile, was shifting from tossing cones to tugging at his ears, afflicted with the same malady that had landed several of the toddlers on the room’s version of the injury list. — ABC News, 30 June 2026 He was deservedly sent off after a reckless foul on Pau Cubarsi, before grabbing the referee’s arm and tossing it to the side in indignation. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 28 June 2026 Applying frosting is one of the few things that cannot be said to be a subset of Haaland’s métier; after tossing his balky piping bag aside in frustration, the Norseman issued an expletive that was deemed bleep-worthy by Fox’s Standards & Practices crew. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 26 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tossing

Verb

The coffin was unveiled late on Thursday to a throng of sobbing supporters, who were swaying and beating their heads in time to a sung lament as flowers were thrown from the bier into the crowd.

— Reuters, USA Today, 4 July 2026
The movie is an apex of film noir, filled with dark shadows, moody lighting and ominous swaying palm trees.

— Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026

Definition of swaying

Verb

In addition to having lofty themes, this is also a fairly rousing adventure with enough visual panache to keep any kid from fidgeting in his seat.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 June 2026
Pekara said hospital surveillance footage captured him fidgeting under the blanket.

— Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of fidgeting

Verb

The same boom-and-bust dependency on the oil industry, whose profits were now funnelled through the regime and its allies, kept the country lurching from one crisis to the next.

— Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
The old guard of the Democratic Party suffered another body blow when three socialist congressional candidates in New York with anti-Israel platforms swept to victory, lurching the party even further to the left.

— Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 25 June 2026

Definition of lurching

Verb

Watching their relationship devolve (never more so than when their sperm donor, a rakish, motorcycle-driving restaurant owner played by Mark Ruffalo, enters the scene) is most definitely a tear-jerking experience, as is the film’s final scene.

— Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 June 2026
Some were petty — like Reese committing a foul against Clark, then jerking her head back, impersonating Clark as a flopper.

— Candace Buckner, New York Times, 27 June 2026

Definition of jerking

Verb

One of his favourites was dal paran — a traditional folk competition which involves hurling stones off the side of a mountain.

— Colin Millar, New York Times, 27 June 2026
At its core, the hearing involved two former business partners hurling major accusations against one another.

— Lauren Victory, CBS News, 22 June 2026

Definition of hurling

Verb

But the lawyer for suspect Iqbal Bacchus, 46, suggested Bacchus was selling wiring that the hospital was discarding.

— Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026
The council also ordered up a measure doubling the amount of money allocated for the Department of Recreation and Parks, discarding an alternative plan that would have increased it by 50%.

— Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026