| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | a crush | a dense crowd of people |
| 2. | a mass of people | a large crowd gathered |
| 3. | a mob | a large, disorderly crowd |
| 4. | a press of people | a dense crowd pressing in |
| 5. | a sea of people | a vast, dense crowd |
| 6. | a swarm | a large moving crowd |
| 7. | a throng | a large crowd of people |
| 8. | at capacity | as full as permitted |
| 9. | besieged | surrounded by many people |
| 10. | bottlenecked | narrowed by too many people |
| 11. | boxed in | surrounded so movement is limited |
| 12. | brimming | filled to the top |
| 13. | bunched | grouped tightly together |
| 14. | bursting | so full it seems to overflow |
| 15. | bustling | full of lively activity and people |
| 16. | busy | with many people or much activity |
| 17. | cheek by jowl | very close together; crowded |
| 18. | chock-full | completely full; packed tight |
| 19. | clogged | blocked by too many people |
| 20. | clustered | gathered closely together |
| 21. | compressed | squeezed into less space |
| 22. | congested | overfull and hard to move through |
| 23. | crammed | stuffed into a small space |
| 24. | crawling | filled with many people |
| 25. | dense | containing many in a small area |
| 26. | densely packed | packed closely together |
| 27. | densely populated | having many people in one area |
| 28. | elbow-to-elbow | standing very close together |
| 29. | filled to bursting | so full it seems to burst |
| 30. | filled to the brim | completely full |
| 31. | filled up | become full; no room left |
| 32. | flooded | filled suddenly with many people |
| 33. | full | containing as much as possible |
| 34. | fully booked | no spaces left; at capacity |
| 35. | gridlocked | stuck due to heavy congestion |
| 36. | heavily attended | with many people present |
| 37. | heaving | very full of people |
| 38. | hemmed in | boxed in by people |
| 39. | high-density | with many people per area |
| 40. | high-traffic | with many people passing through |
| 41. | humming | busy with many people |
| 42. | in a crush | in a dense crowd |
| 43. | in close quarters | in a small, crowded space |
| 44. | inundated | flooded with too many people |
| 45. | jam-packed | extremely crowded; packed tight |
| 46. | jammed | so full movement is difficult |
| 47. | jostling | bumping due to tight crowding |
| 48. | limited space | not much room available |
| 49. | mobbed | surrounded by a crowd |
| 50. | nose-to-tail | lined up with no gaps |
| 51. | overbooked | booked beyond available space |
| 52. | overcapacity | beyond the allowed capacity |
| 53. | overcrowded | too crowded; beyond comfortable capacity |
| 54. | overflowing | so full it spills over |
| 55. | overfull | too full; beyond capacity |
| 56. | overloaded | carrying too many people or things |
| 57. | overpacked | packed too tightly |
| 58. | overrun | taken over by large numbers |
| 59. | overstuffed | too full; packed tight |
| 60. | packed | filled tightly with people or things |
| 61. | people-filled | filled with people |
| 62. | people-packed | packed with people |
| 63. | piled in | packed into a space |
| 64. | piled on | crowding closely around |
| 65. | piled up | gathered in a tight mass |
| 66. | populous | having many people in it |
| 67. | pressed | crowded closely together |
| 68. | rammed | packed in very tightly |
| 69. | seething | crowded and restless |
| 70. | shoulder-to-shoulder | standing very close together |
| 71. | snarled | tangled and blocked with people |
| 72. | squeezed | forced into a tight space |
| 73. | standing room only | so full only standing space remains |
| 74. | stuffed | filled to capacity |
| 75. | swamped | overwhelmed by too many people |
| 76. | swarming | moving with many people close together |
| 77. | teeming | swarming with many people or things |
| 78. | thick with people | full of many people |
| 79. | thickly peopled | having many people in one area |
| 80. | thickly populated | having many people in one area |
| 81. | throng-filled | filled with a throng |
| 82. | thronged | filled with a large crowd |
| 83. | tight | with little room to move |
| 84. | tightly packed | packed with little space between |
| 85. | ultra-busy | extremely busy with people or activity |
| 86. | ultra-packed | packed extremely full of people |
| 87. | under pressure | overloaded with people or demand |
| 88. | under strain | overloaded and hard to move through |
| 89. | up to capacity | filled to the maximum limit |
| 90. | up to the gills | completely full; no space left |
| 91. | up to the rafters | completely full of people |
| 92. | very full | containing as many as possible |
| 93. | wall-to-wall | filled throughout the entire space |
| 94. | wedge-packed | packed in tightly like a wedge |
| 95. | wedged | stuck tightly between others |
| 96. | well-attended | with many people present |
| 97. | well-populated | having many people present |
| 98. | wound tight | packed so tightly movement is hard |
| 99. | writhing | moving restlessly in a tight mass |
| 100. | yoked up | bunched tightly together |