Synonyms of hibernating

hibernating

verb

present participle of hibernate

as in sleeping

to be in an inactive state

bears hibernating in their dens

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sleeping
• resting
• lounging
• chilling
• dozing
• playing
• idling
• aestivating
• loafing
• lingering
• lazing
• relaxing
• bumming
• messing
• dawdling
• hanging (around or out)
• droning
• estivating
• monkeying
• lolling
• mucking
• hacking (around)
• poking
• fooling
• goofing (off)
• lazying
• kicking back
• dillydallying
• hanging about
• lagging
• piddling
• dallying
• fiddling (around)
• loitering
• puttering (around)
• pottering (around)
• vegging out
• trifling
• kicking around
• footling
• tarrying
• malingering
• goldbricking
• truanting
• furloughing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• working
• laboring
• sweating
• plowing
• plugging
• toiling
• grubbing
• grinding
• slaving
• plodding
• humping
• hustling
• pegging
• applying
• buckling (down)
• drudging
• moiling
• travailing
• exerting
• putting out