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Xboxing

Xboxing is the present participle and gerund of Xbox.

Meaning of Xbox

Verb

Xbox (third-person singular simple present Xboxes, present participle Xboxing, simple past and past participle Xboxed)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To play a video game using an Xbox home console.
    • There's a time and a place for mindless activities (we don't need to make them a big deal) but, if done excessively, they don't exactly deliver what they promise. In other words, Xboxing for hours at a time may give you an illusion of rejuvenation but it doesn't truly make you feel rested.2018, Shelley Aggarwal, Signe Darpinian, Wendy Sterling, No Weigh!: A Teen's Guide to Positive Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 49

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Questions about Xboxing

What is Xboxing the present participle and gerund of?
Xboxing is the present participle and gerund of Xbox.

Words near Xboxing in the dictionary

  1. Xbox
  2. Xboxed
  3. Xboxer
  4. Xboxers
  5. Xboxes
  6. Xboxing
  7. xbred
  8. xbreds
  9. xbreed
  10. xbreeding
  11. xbreeds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Xboxing (page history and authors); Xbox (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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