gain ground

1. 1.

   obtain advantages, such as points, etc.

   “The home team was gaining ground”

   “After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference”

   “win points”

   Synonymsgainadvancewinpull aheadmake headwayget ahead

   Narrowerstealscore

Questions about gain ground

What does gain ground mean?

gain ground means "obtain advantages, such as points, etc.".

What is another word for gain ground?

Close synonyms include gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gain ground a common word?

gain ground is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.