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staycating

staycating is the present participle and gerund of staycate.

Meaning of staycate

Verb

staycate (third-person singular simple present staycates, present participle staycating, simple past and past participle staycated)

  1. (informal, intransitive, neologism, rare) To vacation close to home; staycation.
    • On the other hand, when staycation arrived in the 2000s, for a 'stay-at home vacation', one concerned travel firm immediately introduced the slogan: Why staycate when you can vacate? Not all back-formations are immediately accepted.2011, David Crystal, The Story of English in 100 Words

Questions about staycating

What is staycating the present participle and gerund of?
Staycating is the present participle and gerund of staycate.

Words near staycating in the dictionary

  1. staybolted
  2. staybolts
  3. staycate
  4. staycated
  5. staycates
  6. staycating
  7. staycation
  8. staycationed
  9. staycationer
  10. staycationers
  11. staycationing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: staycating (page history and authors); staycate (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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