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

This time, the pair claimed to have heard labored breathing coming across the airwaves, and even what resembled the strained moans of a person aboard an orbiting spacecraft. — Micah Hanks, Space.com, 10 Nov. 2026

Printing replacement parts for the printer itself was an ideal way to prove the value of an orbiting machine shop. — New Atlas, 10 Nov. 2026

The meteoroid then started orbiting the sun, potentially for several million years before being captured by Earth’s gravity and entering our planet’s atmosphere. — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026

Moreover, each object in the apparent pairs of detections had to be about the right brightness and move the correct amount for a planet orbiting the Sun several hundred times farther out than Earth. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2026

What has been hard to miss is the way pharmaceutical companies have been orbiting around the redefinition of Alzheimer’s. — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

Instead, as in the Apollo days, the job will be divided between two ships—one lightweight one to perform the landing and liftoff and one orbiting mothership to bring the crew home when the lunar exploration is done. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 28 Oct. 2026

Most Earth-orbiting satellites draw electricity from solar panels, with batteries supplying power during periods without sunlight. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

Musk has said SpaceX’s future success hinges on its Starship rocket, slated to carry astronauts to the moon and launch hundreds of thousands of communications satellites and orbiting data centers to power its AI ambitions. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026