Synonyms of banging away

banging away

verb

present participle of bang away

as in struggling

to devote serious and sustained effort

the design team has been banging away at that project for months

Synonyms & Similar Words

• struggling
• laboring
• striving
• digging (away)
• working
• pegging (away)
• trying
• endeavoring
• beavering (away)
• sweating blood
• applying (oneself)
• tugging
• hammering (away)
• plowing
• sweating
• buckling (down)
• pitching in
• grubbing
• toiling
• humping
• slaving
• hustling
• digging in
• plugging
• grinding (out)
• plodding
• straining
• drudging
• travailing
• eking out
• knuckling down
• slogging
• moiling
• fagging
• attacking
• putting out
• scratching
• driving
• exerting
• exercising
• essaying
• overworking
• wading
• scrabbling
• overexerting
• trudging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• easing (up)
• hanging (around or out)
• letting up
• hacking (around)
• breaking
• slacking (off)
• goofing (off)
• slackening
• chilling
• idling
• lounging
• resting
• shirking
• loafing
• fooling around
• bumming
• lazing
• vegging out
• relaxing
• messing around
• dallying
• puttering (around)
• goofing (around)
• basking
• pottering (around)
• hanging
• playing
• unwinding
• hanging about
• monkeying (around)
• lolling
• reposing
• trifling
• goldbricking
• dillydallying
• footling
• dabbling
• doodling
• fribbling