diff --git a/src/progress.jl b/src/progress.jl
index f7e0546..20aaa1e 100644
--- a/src/progress.jl
+++ b/src/progress.jl
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ end
 
 function _progress(name, thresh, ex, target, result, loop, iter_vars, ranges, body)
   count_vars = [Symbol("i$k") for k=1:length(iter_vars)]
-  iter_exprs = [:(($i,$(esc(v))) = pairs($(esc(r))))
+  iter_exprs = [:(($i,$(esc(v))) = _vec_pairs($(esc(r))))
                   for (i,v,r) in zip(count_vars,iter_vars,ranges)]
   _id = "progress_$(gensym())"
   quote
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ function _progress(name, thresh, ex, target, result, loop, iter_vars, ranges, bo
       $target = try
         ranges = $(Expr(:vect,esc.(ranges)...))
         nranges = length(ranges)
-        starts = firstindex.(ranges)
+        starts = first.(only.(axes.(ranges)))
         lens = length.(ranges)
         n = prod(lens)
         strides = cumprod([1;lens[1:end-1]])
@@ -139,3 +139,6 @@ end
 
 _comprehension(iter_exprs, body,) = Expr(:comprehension, Expr(:generator, body, iter_exprs...))
 _for(iter_exprs, body) = Expr(:for, Expr(:block, reverse(iter_exprs)...), body)
+
+# like Base.pairs, but for any vector with `axes`
+_vec_pairs(v) = zip(only(axes(v)), v)
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 93a1574..be59fe5 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -72,4 +72,24 @@ let off1 = -2, off2 = 21
   @test x == y == OffsetArray([-1 0 1; -2 0 2; -3 0 3], off1, off2)
 end
 
+# non-indexable iterables with axes
+let r = 1:5
+  x1 = @progress y1 = [i for i in (x^2 for x in r)]
+  x2 = @progress y2 = [i for i in zip(r,r)]
+  @test x1 == y1 == r.^2
+  @test x2 == y2 == collect(zip(r,r))
+  
+  y1, y2 = [], []
+  x1 = @progress for i in (x^2 for x in r)
+    push!(y1, i)
+  end
+  x2 = @progress for i in zip(r,r)
+    push!(y2, i)
+  end
+  @test x1 == x2 == nothing
+  @test y1 == r.^2
+  @test y2 == collect(zip(r,r))
+end
+
+
 @test Juno.notify("hi") == nothing