gerund

His intentional use of a gerund in the title allows “entertaining” to be read as both doing a thing and being a thing.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

It’s also one of the activities Koenig recommends for parents to introduce their kids to “musiking,” her preferred gerund for describing the act of playing with melody, rhythm and movement.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2021

First off, nice possessive before a gerund, Jordan!

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 6, 2020

Instead, Wilson and Nabokov clashed over a gerund.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2016

Alfred himself uses the infinitive or the gerund to express purpose after gān, gǫngan, cuman, and sęndan. 647-51. wiste ... cwōman.

From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith

“TiVoing,” meaning to record a show for later viewing, even became one of those generic gerunds, like “Xeroxing” or “Googling.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

Nearly every other sentence contains pungent Anglo-Saxon nouns and gerunds.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2019

Muir and “WNT’s” reporters frequently eschew verbs, replacing them with gerunds in a kind of headline-style speed talk.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015

Though in the Texas twang, he drops the g’s from his gerunds.

From Time ● Sep. 8, 2011

In fact, gerunds with unmarked subjects were the historically earlier form, have long been used by the language’s best writers, and are perfectly idiomatic.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker