Word.ws English Dictionary

patrolling

UK/pəˈtɹəʊlɪŋ/US/pəˈtɹoʊlɪŋ/

patrolling is the present participle and gerund of patrol.

Meaning of patrol

Verb

patrol (third-person singular simple present patrols, present participle patrolling, simple past and past participle patrolled)

  1. (intransitive) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
  2. (transitive) To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman
    • to patrol a frontier

See all 8 meanings of patrol

Noun

patrolling (plural patrollings)

  1. The act of going on patrol.
    • The remainder of our patrollings simply consisted of journeying up and down the enemy coast looking for anything that may appear.1916, William Buchan, The Log of H. M. S. "Bristol," Commission 13th May, 1914, Till December 17th, 1915

Forms of patrolling

pluralpatrollings

Questions about patrolling

What does patrolling mean?
Patrolling means the act of going on patrol.
What is patrolling the present participle and gerund of?
Patrolling is the present participle and gerund of patrol.
What part of speech is patrolling?
Patrolling is a noun.
How do you pronounce patrolling?
Patrolling is pronounced /pəˈtɹəʊlɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the plural of patrolling?
The plural of patrolling is patrollings.

Words near patrolling in the dictionary

  1. patroling
  2. patrollable
  3. patrolled
  4. patroller
  5. patrollers
  6. patrolling
  7. patrollings
  8. patrolman
  9. patrolmen
  10. patrologic
  11. patrological

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: patrolling (page history and authors); patrol (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “patrolling.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/patrolling. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.