Definition of "hurtling" []

• Present participle of hurtle. (verb)

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• "I'm still not clear as to how losing one's footing on an escalator that wasn't moving could result in hurtling over the side, especially since the man reportedly had not been drinking and was not horsing around when the accident occurred."
• "I was on a train hurtling along at forty miles an hour towards the east; there was one coming down the track the other way, from the east towards the west."
• "Happily the last of the effendis had just arrived, and there was nobody else to announce; for it was in vain that I sought to shake off the impression, every time I advanced between the curtains to send a name hurtling through the air at random, I saw the chandeliers of the drawing-rooms revolving with hundreds of dazzling lights, and the floors slipping away with sharp and perpendicular slopes like Russian mountains."