Synonyms of orbiting

orbiting

verb

present participle of orbit

as in circling

to travel completely around

the moon orbits the Earth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• circling
• traversing
• encircling
• crossing
• ringing
• circuiting
• circumventing
• rounding
• circumnavigating
• girdling
• compassing
• circumambulating
• perambulating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of orbiting

At the same time, the star’s brightness seemed to dim periodically, suggesting an orbiting planet. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2026

The planetary system is among the most studied in our galaxy, and its star is known to host 30 orbiting comets and a giant disk of dust and debris, which NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed in detail in 2015. — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

In the early 1930s, scientists were just beginning to discover the extraordinary world hidden inside the atom, which is made up of a dense center, called the nucleus, with electrons orbiting around it. — Andrea Richard, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026

That's the fastest any American spacecraft has ever reached the orbiting lab, NASA officials said. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 1 Oct. 2026

An orbiting satellite could afterward use its signal to locate the site and establish a precise lock before transmitting energy. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026

That changed in 2013, when a small, dark body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus passed in front of a star and blinked twice on either side of the main event, revealing two narrow rings around an object barely 250 kilometers across. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 19 Sep. 2026

Naturally, the night called for not one, not two, but three major looks, all orbiting a palette of fall neutrals. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026

The company has told the Federal Communications Commission that some debris from a disposed orbiting data center could survive and land on the Earth, but expects the fragments to be harmless. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026