Synonyms for wheel
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1. wheelnoun

   wheel rim

   Synonyms:
   rim

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1. wheelnoun

   a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)

   Synonyms:
   rack, bike, roulette wheel, bicycle, steering wheel, cycle

2. steering wheel, wheelnoun

   a handwheel that is used for steering

   Synonyms:
   rack, roulette wheel, bike, bicycle, steering wheel, cycle

3. wheelnoun

   forces that provide energy and direction

   "the wheels of government began to turn"

   Synonyms:
   rack, bike, roulette wheel, bicycle, steering wheel, cycle

4. wheelnoun

   a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel

   Synonyms:
   rack, bike, roulette wheel, bicycle, steering wheel, cycle

5. roulette wheel, wheelnoun

   game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in

   Synonyms:
   cycle, rack, bike, roulette wheel, bicycle, steering wheel

6. rack, wheelnoun

   an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims

   Synonyms:
   bicycle, wrack, single-foot, cycle, stand, roulette wheel, bike, rack, steering wheel

7. bicycle, bike, wheel, cycleverb

   a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals

   Synonyms:
   cycles/second, bicycle, rack, cycle, oscillation, roulette wheel, bike, cps, motorcycle, rhythm, steering wheel, hertz, cycle per second, round

8. wheel, wheel aroundverb

   change directions as if revolving on a pivot

   "They wheeled their horses around and left"

   Synonyms:
   bicycle, bike, roll, cycle, pedal, wheel around

9. wheel, wheel aroundverb

   wheel somebody or something

   Synonyms:
   bicycle, bike, roll, cycle, pedal, wheel around

10. wheel, rollverb

    move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle

    "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds"

    Synonyms:
    wave, wrap, rove, hustle, range, turn over, stray, ramble, cast, pluck, revolve, wind, roll, flap, swan, wander, cycle, wheel around, drift, roll out, seethe, pedal, undulate, twine, tramp, bicycle, roam, vagabond, roll up, bike

11. bicycle, cycle, bike, pedal, wheelverb

    ride a bicycle

    Synonyms:
    wheel around, bicycle, cycle, pedal, bike, roll, motorcycle, motorbike

Matched Categories

1. • Force
   • Game Equipment
   • Handwheel
   • Helm
   • Instrument Of Torture
   • Machine
   • Move
   • Ride

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. circumrotate

   your head spins like a wheel

   in the lego movie, emet uses his head to circumrotate.

   Submitted by anonymous on January 21, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wheelverb

   Synonyms:
   revolve, rotate, turn, gyrate, roll, turn round, move round

2. wheelverb

   Synonyms:
   deviate, deflect, diverge, turn aside, alter one's course

3. wheelverb

   Synonyms:
   whirl, twirl, spin, put into a rotatory motion

4. wheelverb

   Synonyms:
   move on wheels, convey on wheels

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1. wheelnoun

   Synonyms:
   cycle, truckle, caster, roulette, rowel, gear, cogwheel, miter wheel, pulley, sheave (wheel of a pulley)

   Associated words:
   spoke, felly, hub, strake, tire, straddle, cog, sprocket, linchpin, arbor, axle, axletree, sprag, traction, trochilics, trochilic, ratchet, flange, skid, rotiform

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1. List of paraphrases for "wheel":

   rueda, flywheel, wheels, flyer, volante, rim, tire, flying, wheeled, rudder, saucer, parade, roulette, tyre, slotted

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1. Confucius:

   The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day be uppermost.

2. Lois Ellen Frank:

   History is like a bicycle wheel. In the center is a historical event, but there are tons of spokes on that wheel that get to the same historic event, altering perspectives and differing ways of doing it.

3. The Finn:

   Not much to talk about. I lost a wheel and retired and that's about it, it was tight. If you ask him, for sure he's going to blame me. But I'm sure if he'd gone over the kerb there would have been space. But obviously it was quite slippery there so he locked a bit the front wheel.

4. Gilbert Keith Chesterton:

   The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown.

5. Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne:

   This plant and this architecture is capable of making the 300 successor, the front-wheel, all-wheel drive successor.