WordNet
n. the act of moving forward toward a goal [syn: progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion]
Usage examples of "onward motion".
After a thousand miles of steady onward motion they strike the cliff and in an instant they are broken into foam.
A moment more, and the water was in my ears and eyes and nostrils: but even as I sank and drowned there was still the sense of swift onward motion.
The logs began to loosen, and although the onward motion of the boat kept the chain taut, when the rowers slackened their exertions the mass parted, and Mr.
The ship moved so smoothly that her onward motion was imperceptible to the senses of men, as though she had been a crowded planet speeding through the dark spaces of ether behind the swarm of suns, in the appalling and calm solitudes awaiting the breath of future creations.