'forward motion' definitions:
Definition of 'forward motion'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of moving forward (as toward a goal) [syn: progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion] [ant: retreat]
Synonyms of 'forward motion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance,
- advancement,
- advancing,
- angular motion,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- axial motion,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backward motion,
- Brownian movement,
- career,
- climbing,
- course,
- current,
- descending,
- descent,
- downward motion,
- drift,
- driftage,
- ebbing,
- flight,
- flow,
- flux,
- forwardal,
- forwarding,
- furtherance,
- furthering,
- go-ahead,
- headway,
- march,
- mounting,
- oblique motion,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- onward course,
- passage,
- plunging,
- progress,
- progression,
- progressiveness,
- promotion,
- radial motion,
- random motion,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regression,
- retrogression,
- rising,
- rolling,
- rolling on,
- run,
- rush,
- set,
- sideward motion,
- sinking,
- soaring,
- sternway,
- stream,
- subsiding,
- traject,
- trajet,
- travel,
- trend,
- upward motion,
- way