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

The trio currently share the orbiting lab with four other people — Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and cosmonauts Anna Kikina, Pyotr Dubrov and Sergey Teteryatnikov. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 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

The acts of sabotage risk disrupting access to Starlink, which relies on the gateway ground stations to beam broadband data to orbiting satellites that then relay the internet to users on the ground. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 19 Oct. 2026

Currently, about 16,000 satellites are orbiting Earth, providing everything from GPS service and weather reports to phone service in remote locations to people across the globe. — Margaret Landis, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026

These can profoundly affect our orbiting satellites and power grid, so understanding the sun’s magnetic activity actually very much impacts us here on Earth. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026