For a guy who was chosen by his father as the only son to be taught the secrets of this martial art, he doesn't have that much of a kick.
Source: tatoeba (27760)
Kick
/kɪk/
Synonyms for "kick" (515 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (103)
abandonaggressivenessaid to navigationair a grievancealarmamber lightamusementanimal pleasureantagonismantipathybackfirebacklashbacklashingbalefirebangbeaconbeacon firebeat the drumbeefbeefing
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bellbell buoybellyachebellyachingbitchbitchingbiteblinkerblue peterbodily pleasureboggleboomerangbootbouncebounce backboundbound backboycottbreakbreak the habitbrisknessbroad hintbumpbuoybustbuzzcalcitrationcall in questioncancannoncannon offcarnal delightcaromcashiercaution lightchallengechargeclamorclashingcluecollisioncomfortcomplaincomplain loudlycomplainingcomplaintcompunctionconflictconfrontconfutationcontend withcontentcontentmentcontradictioncontrapositioncontrarietycontrecoupcounteractioncounterpositioncounterworkingcozinesscrabcrankinesscreature comfortscroakcrotchetiness
Strong matches (155)
cry out againstcuedashdefrockdegradedemonstratedemonstrate againstdemonstrationdemotedemurdemurrerdeplumedeposedeprivedestructive criticismdipdisbardischargediscontinuedisemploy
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dismissdisplacedisplumedisputedissentdrivedropdrop kickdrum outeaseendpleasureenjoymententer a protestenterpriseentertainmenteuphoriaexceptexceptionexchange colorsexpelexpostulateexpostulationface downface outface up tofaultfindingfirefixationflagflag downflareflashflushfly backfog bellfog signalfog whistlefoghornforepleasurefretfret and fumefrictionfrontfruitionfunfurloughfussgentle hintgestureget-up-and-gogingergive a signalgive the axgive the gategive the nodgive upglanceglimmerglimmeringgo lightgong buoygratificationgreat satisfactiongreen lightgrievancegrievance committeegripegripinggroangroaninggrouchgrousegrousinggrowlgrumblegrumblinggruntgustogutshailhail and speakhalf-masthave repercussionshearty enjoymentheliographhigh signhinthoist a bannerhollerhotnesshowlimplicationindexindicationindignation meetinginitiativeinklinginnuendoinsinuationintellectual pleasureinterferenceinternational alphabet flaginternational numeral pennantintimationinveighjoie de vivrejollieskeen pleasurekick againstkick backkick upstairskickbackkickingkickskneelash backlay off
Related words (257)
leave offleerlet golet outliftlivelinesslodge a complaintlookluxurymake a signmake a standmake redundantmarchmarker beaconmeet head-onmurmurmurmuringmutternipnippiness
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nodnonconformitynonviolent protestnudgeobjectobjectionoffer resistanceopposeoppositionopposureoppugnanceoppugnancyparachute flarepeevepeevishnesspension offpeppepperpepperinessperversenesspet peevepetulancephysical pleasurepicketpicketingpilot flagpiss and vinegarpizzazzplace kickpleasurepokepolice whistlepooppress objectionspromptprotestprotest demonstrationprotestationpunchpuntpushqualmquarantine flagquerulousnessquiet pleasurequiverracinessradio beaconraise a cryraise a howlrallyreactionread out ofreboundrebuffrecalcitrancerecalcitraterecalcitrationrecoilred flagred lightregister a complaintreleaserelishreluctremonstranceremonstrateremonstrationremoverenitencyrepercussrepercussionrepinereplacerepugnancerepulseresileresilienceresistanceretirerevoltricochetrocketroman candlerushrush of emotionsacksailing aidsalutesatisfactionscentscoldingscrupleself-gratificationself-indulgencesemaphoresemaphore flagsemaphore telegraphsensationsensual pleasuresensuous pleasureseparate forciblysexual pleasureshakeshivershow fightshuddersignsignalsignal beaconsignal bellsignal firesignal flagsignal gongsignal gunsignal lampsignal lightsignal mastsignal postsignal rocketsignal shotsignal sirensignal towersignalizesit insit-insnapsnap backsnappinesssnipingsound an alarmsound the trumpetspar buoyspeakspicespicinessspoorspringspring backspunksquawksquawkingstandstand at baystand up againststand up tostarchstate a grievancesticklestopstop lightstrikestripstrive againstsuggestionsuperannuatesurge of emotionsurplussuspendsuspicionswear offsweetness of lifeswimming upstreamsymptomtake ontake uptangtanginessteach inteach-intelltalethe nodthe winkthrillthrow offthrusttingletinglingtitillationtouchtracktraffic lighttraffic signaltremortremor of excitementturn offturn outunfrockunfurl a flagvervevimvoluptuousnesswailwallopwatch firewavewave a flagwave the handwell-beingwhinewhiningwhisperwhite flagwigwagwigwag flagwinkwithstandyapyappingyell bloody murderyellow flagyelpzestzestfulnesszingzip
Noun(16 words)
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: boot, abandon, activate, aggressiveness, aid to navigation.
- Sentence evidence is available for kick, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from wordnet, opengloss, moby, derived_reverse, and related lexical sources.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "kick".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "kick"
Keep "kick" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "kick" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "kick", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "kick" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
52 entriesactivationblowbouncebounddancedispense withemotional arousalexcitementexclusionexhilarationexpressforegoforeswearforgogive tongue tohit
Showing 16 of 52 words.
More specific
12 entriesCollocations
11 entriesInflections
3 entriesDerivations
5 entriesTranslations
130 translations across 78 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- skop verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Ainu
2 entries- オテッテㇾケ verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- オテㇾケ verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λακτίζω verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Arabic
4 entries- رفس verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- رفس verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- رَفَسَ verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- رَكَلَ verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Assamese
2 entries- গুৰিয়া verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- লথিয়া verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Belarusian
4 entries- брыка́ць verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- брыкну́ць verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- шту́рхаць verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- штурхну́ць verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Brunei Malay
2 entries- sipak verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- tandang verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ри́там verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Burmese
1 entries- ကန် verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Catalan
4 entries- donar un cop de peu verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- donar una puntada (de peu) verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- tustar verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- xutar verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Cebuano
1 entries- sipa verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- شەق لێدان verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Chinese
1 entries- 踢 verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 踢 verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 趵 verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- 踆 verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- 踢 verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- 踶 verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Czech
2 entries- kopat verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- kopnout verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Danish
1 entries- sparke verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Dutch
3 entries- schoppen verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- stampen verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- trappen verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Esperanto
1 entries- piedbati verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Finnish
2 entries- potkaista verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- potkia verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
French
2 entries- botter verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- donner un coup de pied à verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Galician
1 entries- patear verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Georgian
4 entries- პანღური verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- პანჩური verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- ფეხის კვრა verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- წიხლის კვრა verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
German
2 entries- kicken verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- treten verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Greek
1 entries- κλοτσώ verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 踢 verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Hebrew
1 entries- בָּעַט verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Higaonon
1 entries- sinipa verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Hindi
1 entries- लात मारना verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Hungarian
1 entries- rúg verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Icelandic
2 entries- sparka verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- sparka í verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Indonesian
2 entries- menendang verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- tendang verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Ingrian
1 entries- potkia verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Irish
1 entries- ciceáil verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Italian
1 entries- calciare verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Japanese
2 entries- キックする verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- 蹴る verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Kazakh
1 entries- тебу verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Khasi
1 entries- kynjat verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Khmer
3 entries- កែង verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- ទាត់ verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- ធាក់ verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Korean
1 entries- 차다 verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- тебүү verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Lao
1 entries- ເຕະ verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Latin
1 entries- calcitrō verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Latvian
3 entries- spert verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- spārdīt verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- spārdīties verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Lithuanian
3 entries- spardyti verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- spardytis verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- spirti verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Macedonian
2 entries- клоца verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- клоцне verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Malay
2 entries- sepak verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- tendang verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡶᡝᠰᡥᡝᠯᡝᠮᠪᡳ verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Norman
2 entries- co-d'piêter verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- codpîser verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Norwegian
1 entries- sparke verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Old English
1 entries- spornan verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Oromo
1 entries- dhiituu verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Persian
1 entries- لگد زدن verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Polish
2 entries- kopać verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- kopnąć verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Portuguese
1 entries- chutar verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Quechua
1 entries- hayt'ay verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Romanian
2 entries- lovi cu piciorul verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- șuta verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Russian
4 entries- ляга́ть verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- лягну́ть verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- пина́ть verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- пнуть verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Sardinian
1 entries- calchidare verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- breab verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- udariti (nogom) verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Shan
1 entries- ပိတ်ႉ verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Sicilian
2 entries- cauciari verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- dari na pidata verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Slovak
2 entries- kopať verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- kopnúť verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Slovene
1 entries- brcniti verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Sotho
1 entries- raha verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Southern Altai
1 entries- тебер verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Spanish
3 entries- dar un puntapié verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- dar una patada verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- patear verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Swedish
1 entries- sparka verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Tagalog
1 entries- sipain verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Tausug
1 entries- sipa verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Telugu
1 entries- తన్ను verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Thai
1 entries- เตะ verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- kik verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Turkish
2 entries- tekme atmak verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- tekmelemek verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ко́пати verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- ко́пнути verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- штовха́ти verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
- штовхну́ти verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đá verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Welsh
1 entries- cicio verb (strike with or raise the foot or leg)
Sample sentences
66 total sentences available.
You can't kick me around any more.
Source: tatoeba (31652)
Kick with your legs straight to go forward.
Source: tatoeba (35189)
Everything was allowed: You could kick, trip, hit, or bite your opponent.
Source: tatoeba (36782)
Showing 4 of 66 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "kick"?
Closest matches include boot, abandon, activate, aggressiveness, aid to navigation.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "kick"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.