Synonyms of roosting

roosting

verb

present participle of roost

1

as in perching

to come to rest after descending from the air

pigeons flying home to roost on the roof

Synonyms & Similar Words

• perching
• landing
• alighting
• lighting
• touching down
• settling
• belly-landing
• crash-landing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rising
• climbing
• arising
• ascending
• taking off
• flying
• floating
• gliding
• soaring
• hanging
• blasting off
• hovering
• winging
• planing

2

as in nestling

to establish or place comfortably or snugly

a gang of friends had roosted themselves around the ski lodge's massive fireplace

Synonyms & Similar Words

• perching
• nestling
• lodging
• positioning
• parking
• settling
• installing
• planting
• locating
• ensconcing
• anchoring
• stationing
• deploying
• situating
• housing
• camping
• burrowing
• setting
• camping (out)
• fixing
• emplacing
• bivouacking
• curling up
• digging in
• harboring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of roosting

To search for evidence of fire use, the researchers analyzed rodent bones littering the cave, deposited over thousands of years by roosting owls. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026

Eucalyptus, Monterey pine, and Monterey cypress trees are common homes for roosting monarchs, as those tree species provide adequate shelter from weather and predators. — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025

The county said construction for the park would not take place within 200 feet of roosting sites for the bat, but provided no evidence to support that as a proper buffer, adding another inadequacy to the environmental review, Bacal said. — Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025

Exclusion is the most effective means of keeping bats from roosting in your house. — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025

Though no condors were roosting near the Grand Canyon area wildfires, the Peregrine Fund evacuated three captive condors in their facilities to a safe location. — John Leos, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025

Here, the wide, shallow channels are perfect for roosting birds, while the surrounding cornfields provide a post-harvest buffet, allowing the cranes to fatten up for the long journey to their breeding grounds in the northern stretches of the United States, Canada, and even Siberia. — Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025

If the permit is granted, the gulls' eggs can only be exterminated during roosting season between mid-May and mid-June. — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025

The birds were roosting — settling in to sleep — in trees surrounding the Pyramid, including eucalyptus trees along Washington Street and in the park’s 50-year-old towering redwoods. — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2024