- present participle of orbit.
orbiting
Example Sentences
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Astronaut Wally Schirra boarded the vessel wearing his personal Omega Speedmaster Professional, orbiting Earth six times over the course of nine hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Indeed, it’s difficult to estimate how space junk is currently orbiting our planet.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
The rocket stage had been just one of tens of thousands of pieces of "space junk" orbiting Earth.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Previous research has identified rocky planets orbiting within the habitable zones of their stars.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
It seemed to him very likely that the globular clusters used in this investigation, nearly a hundred of them, would be orbiting about, paying homage to, the massive center of the Milky Way.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
