What is another word for orbiting?

Pronunciation: [ˈɔːbɪtɪŋ] (IPA)

Orbiting is a term used to describe a celestial object, such as a planet or moon, revolving around another celestial object due to the force of gravity. A synonym for orbiting is circling, which also describes the movement of objects around another. Other synonyms include revolving, rotating, and going around. These words all convey the idea of a circular motion around a center point. In a metaphorical sense, synonyms for orbiting might include hovering, waiting in the wings, or looming. These words suggest a state of suspended action, waiting for something to happen or react to. Overall, the synonyms for orbiting help to paint a vivid picture of objects in motion around a central point.

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Usage examples for Orbiting

Two ships which had been orbiting the planet also changed course and started out.
"Space Viking"
Henry Beam Piper
The suns themselves eventually flared up into supernovas consuming all planetary bodies orbiting their realm and died.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
He noticed that the planet Jupiter has moons orbiting it.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly

Famous quotes with Orbiting

  • Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.
    Marc Garneau
  • It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.
    Clifford D. Simak
  • Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)
    L. Gordon Cooper
  • “Travel in the old ruts,” quotes my friend Meredith; some ancient Chinese maxim. The way lain down by elders. Pathways through the world, pathways through the mind—it’s a shame that these days we so seldom have a guide. That our atomized worldview, mimicking scientific doctrine, sees us as separate, distinct, alone, orbiting in space, touching only an infinite void.
    Russell Brand
  • One can be a true believer in anything: psychic ability, Christianity or, as Bertrand Russell classically suggested (with irony), in the fact there is a teapot orbiting the earth. I could believe any of those things with total conviction. But my conviction doesn't make them true. Indeed, it is something of an insult to the very truth I might hold dear to say that something is true just because I believe it is.
    Derren Brown

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