sit around

1. 1.

   be around, often idly or without specific purpose

   “The object sat in the corner”

   “We sat around chatting for another hour”

   Synonymssit

   Broaderbe

Questions about sit around

What does sit around mean?

sit around means "be around, often idly or without specific purpose".

What is another word for sit around?

Close synonyms include sit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sit around a common word?

sit around is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.