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

And typically, the extreme radiation around these stars totally strips the atmospheres from the planets orbiting them, so astronomers have wondered if planets orbiting these stars can have an atmosphere at all. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 16 July 2026

But a study in Wednesday’s issue of Nature describes observations of helium being lost from the atmosphere of an exoplanet orbiting the star LHS 1140, about 50 light-years away. — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026

The extraordinary interest in the IPO was driven by Musk’s plans to make the company an AI leader — including plans to launch orbiting satellite data centers powered by the sun that crunch AI data. — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026

The four people on board—cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang, film maker Jannicke Mikkelsen, engineer Rabea Rogge and polar explorer Eric Philips—spent three and a half days orbiting Earth. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 15 July 2026

The Hillsborough meteorite may have once belonged to a larger space rock orbiting within the inner asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 15 July 2026

Reflect Orbital aims to advance green energy by using orbiting mirrors to beam sunlight onto solar farms at night, enabling 24/7 power generation. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026

And that faint illumination will not last long—just five minutes before the satellite, which will be orbiting 400 miles up at 17,500 miles per hour, moves out of range. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 July 2026

Launching today, the Fi Ultra is the world’s first dog tracker to adopt T-Satellite, T-Mobile’s implementation of Starlink Mobile, which uses orbiting satellites to beam data to phones on the ground. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 8 July 2026