sit around
sit around verb: to spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.
Verb
sit around (third-person singular simple present sits around, present participle sitting around, simple past and past participle sat around)
- To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.
- "When it was all British Rail, if they had some redundant sidings, they would dump all their old trains. There wasn't really a pressure to get rid of them. Now, with private companies owning the sites, you have to pay to store vehicles. Nobody wants old vehicles sat around - they can be graffitied...2025 October 29, James Steward tells Joe Campbell, “Thriving on the stock exchange”, in RAIL, number 1047, page 45
sit around meaning in Gujarati, Malay and Vietnamese
sit around in Gujarati
- to sit around
- બેસી રહેવું besī rahevũ
sit around in Malay
- sit idly
- duduk-duduk
sit around in Vietnamese
- sit idly
- ngồi không
Forms of sit around
| third-person singular present | sits around |
|---|---|
| present participle | sitting around |
| past participle | sat around |
| past | sat around |
Questions about sit around
- What does sit around mean?
- Sit around means to spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important.
- What is sit around in Gujarati?
- Sit around in Gujarati is બેસી રહેવું (besī rahevũ). See Sit around meaning in Gujarati.
- What part of speech is sit around?
- Sit around is a verb.
- What is the past tense of sit around?
- The past tense of sit around is sat around.
Words near sit around in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sit around (page history and authors); બેસી રહેવું (Gujarati) (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.
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