catnap

It was love, yes, but also wanting a catnap because Hersh was still tired from his night out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Some marine mammals sleep while swimming and some seabirds catnap while flying, letting one half of the brain doze while the other keeps working.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 27, 2021

You can even grab a quick catnap on your break.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2020

“I was back in the mine,” she says of the catnap she was able to squeeze in between media interviews in her D.C. hotel room.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2015

A catnap, Aunt Lydia called it, in her coy way.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Deckhand Dan Jacobson catnapped while sitting upright on a bench by the galley table.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2022

Tuna, the couple believes, was later catnapped, while Socks, a replacement for Barney, apparently ran off with a brawny stray.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2019

In flight, he worked on speeches, changed his clothes, catnapped.

From Time Magazine Archive

No critic catnapped more frequently in his seat, and the Trib's critic was famed for writing some of his most thoughtful review's about concerts through which he had dozed.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the seat next to Rick, Scotty catnapped.

From The Pirates of Shan by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

The season of beach days and barbecues, kayaking and catnapping, hammocks and homemade popsicles.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2019

The last time we were here, I was only the girlfriend and spent the entire week exhausted and catnapping until people started asking if I was sick.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2016

I immediately thought - could this be a "catnapping"?

From Time ● Jul. 16, 2013

I bailed water out of my boots, then spent a blissful hour catnapping as my clothes dried in the sun.

From Washington Post

The other children were spread throughout the car, catnapping, daydreaming out the window, or playing cards.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs