orbit

1a :  a path described by one body in its revolution about another (as by the earth about the sun or by an electron about an atomic nucleus); also :  one complete revolution of a body describing such a pathb :  a circular path

2 :  a range or sphere of activity or influence within the president's orbit

1 :  to revolve in an orbit around :  circle

2 :  to send up and make revolve in an orbit orbit a satellite

:  to travel in circles

:  the path taken by one body circling around another body The earth makes an orbit around the sun.

1 :  to move in an orbit around :  circle The moon orbits the earth.

2 :  to send up so as to move in an orbit The weather bureau will orbit a new satellite.

:  the bony cavity perforated for the passage of nerves and blood vessels that occupies the lateral front of the skull immediately beneath the frontal bone on each side and encloses and protects the eye and its appendages—called also eye socket, orbital cavity