Synonyms of hanging around

hanging around

verb

present participle of hang around

as in remaining

to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time

if you hang around until my husband gets home, you can meet him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• remaining
• waiting
• staying
• sticking around
• hanging on
• dwelling
• holding on
• abiding
• tarrying
• awaiting
• lingering
• loitering
• dawdling
• overstaying
• dallying
• outstaying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pulling out
• taking off
• cutting out
• walking out
• going off
• getting off
• buzzing (off)
• shoving (off)
• packing (up or off)
• peeling off
• pushing on
• clearing out
• pushing off
• bailing out
• moving
• leaving
• clearing off
• going
• running away
• exiting
• departing
• getting out
• bugging out
• bailing
• quitting
• flying
• piking (out or off)
• escaping
• fleeing
• skipping
• evacuating
• vamoosing
• absconding
• booking
• abandoning
• vacating
• forsaking
• deserting
• scramming
• decamping
• scatting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hanging around

Joe cut his teeth by working his way up the ranks; also maybe by hanging around a lot when dad Jack Buck broadcast for years from most of the sacred citadels of sports. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

When it was finally heard, Jennifer Leeper introduced it and most of the Democratic caucus was either not in the room or hanging around chatting. — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2026

There's nothing unusual about a celebrity hanging around the paddock. — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

As the daughter of two classical singers, she was used to hanging around backstage and going along with the rhythm of theatrical days. — Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026

Dorothy recalls patrons hanging around the shop for hours, running her hands along a rainbow of silk ties, and picking up tailor pins with her cousins to pass the time. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2026

May Rosenberg, the wife of the critic Harold Rosenberg, once visited Krasner’s studio and assumed that the man hanging around in dungarees, not saying much of anything, was an intellectually disabled janitor. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026

And no one was hanging around Jane Doe’s former sorority house, except for a round-the-clock security guard parked in the driveway. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026

One bonus has been the discovery that feline family members of various New York households especially enjoy hanging around the batteries. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026