Word.ws English Dictionary

sidestepping

sidestepping is the present participle and gerund of sidestep.

Meaning of sidestep

Verb

sidestep (third-person singular simple present sidesteps, present participle sidestepping, simple past and past participle sidestepped)

  1. (intransitive) To step to the side.
    • I […] knocked and waited. […] He sidestepped, and I went in.1955 October, Rex Stout, “Die Like a Dog”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, →ISBN, page 180
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To avoid or dodge.
    • They sidestepped the issue.

See all 4 meanings of sidestep

Noun

sidestepping (countable and uncountable, plural sidesteppings)

  1. The act of taking a (physical or figurative) sidestep.

Forms of sidestepping

pluralsidesteppings

Questions about sidestepping

What does sidestepping mean?
Sidestepping means the act of taking a (physical or figurative) sidestep.
What is sidestepping the present participle and gerund of?
Sidestepping is the present participle and gerund of sidestep.
What part of speech is sidestepping?
Sidestepping is a noun.
What is the plural of sidestepping?
The plural of sidestepping is sidesteppings.

Words near sidestepping in the dictionary

  1. sidestalls
  2. sidestep
  3. sidestepped
  4. sidestepper
  5. sidesteppers
  6. sidestepping
  7. sidesteppings
  8. sidesteps
  9. sidestick
  10. sidesticks
  11. Sidestrand

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sidestepping (page history and authors); sidestep (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: “sidestepping.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sidestepping. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.