Meanings
present singular third person sits around · participle present sitting around · participle past sat around · past sat around
- To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.
1 more example
"When it was all British Rail, if they had some redundant sidings, they would dump all their old trains. There wasn't really a pressure to get rid of them. Now, with private companies owning the sites, you have to pay to store vehicles. Nobody wants old vehicles sat around - they can be graffitied, vandalised - and so the onus really is to move them on.
2025 October 29, James Steward tells Joe Campbell, “Thriving on the stock exchange”, in RAIL, number 1047, page 45
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Finnish istuskella, istuksia
- istuskellasit idly
- istuksiasit idly
German herumsitzen, rumsitzen
- herumsitzensit idly
- rumsitzensit idly
Latin desideo, sedeo
- desideosit idly
- sedeosit idly
Malay duduk-duduk
- duduk-duduksit idly
Māori moteko
- motekosit idly
Vietnamese ngồi không
- ngồi khôngsit idly
Cite this entry
sit around. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sit%20around
“sit around.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sit%20around. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sit around,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sit%20around.
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