Synonyms of creeks

creeks

noun

plural of creek

1

as in brooks

a natural body of running water smaller than a river

the shallow creek that runs in back of our house

Synonyms & Similar Words

• brooks
• streams
• tributaries
• bayous
• rivulets
• rills
• streamlets
• canals
• runnels
• runs
• becks
• burns
• gills
• arroyos
• runoffs
• waterways
• freshets
• sloughs
• watercourses
• brooklets
• coulees
• bourns
• bournes
• washes
• billabongs
• runlets
• channels
• freshes
• races
• slues
• distributaries
• slews
• branches
• cutoffs
• affluents
• guts
• influents
• kills
• millraces
• millstreams
• cuts
• confluents

2

as in estuaries

chiefly British a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline

explored many of the creeks along the Cornwall coast of England

Synonyms & Similar Words

• estuaries
• bays
• coves
• inlets
• firths
• lochs
• gulfs
• fjords
• embayments
• ports
• fiords
• roads
• bayous
• arms
• bights
• harbors
• straits
• sounds
• backwaters
• sloughs
• narrows
• roadsteads
• slues
• slews