Idling is valid Scrabble Word

Is idling a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is idling valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for IDLING in dictionary:

VERB:

IDLE, to be unoccupied
spend time doing nothing
move aimlessly or lazily
take out of use or employment
(of an engine) run slowly while disconnected from a load or out of gear
cause (an engine) to idle.

NOUN:

having no employment

ADJECTIVE:

(of a person) avoiding work; lazy
(of a person) not working; unemployed
(especially of a machine or factory) not active or in use

(of time) characterized by inaction or absence of significant activity
(of money) held in cash or in accounts paying no interest.
without purpose or effect; pointless
(especially of a threat or boast) without foundation

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to pass time idly
present participle of idle

Words related to IDLING

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Words that contain IDLING

hidling12 kidling13 sidling9 bridling12 daidling11 hidlings13 kidlings14 chidlings16 sidlingly14 stridling11 unbridling14

How to use IDLING in a sentence

As I sunk back, in a sort of dream, into the rocking-chair in which I had been idling, the garden caught my eye through the open window.
Clair is one of the great idling places of those upon this continent who can afford to idle.
Antonin for his part sneered and shrugged his shoulders at it all, idling away his time pending the day when he might be able to resume a life of profligacy.
Another day or two idling and card-playing, another headache after too much grog at night, brought us to a regular go in about business, and then we fixed it for good.
And so swift was that descent that, when the girl, idling down the steps across the street, came onto the sidewalk, Bill Gregg rushed out from the other side and ran toward her.
Long, monotonous days of garrison duty followed for the men, days of drilling, of idling up and down the streets of the dull Southern town.
The little brook with merry voice and low, The gentle ripples rippling far below, Talked with no idle voice, Though idling were their choice.
I hoped with all my heart that the Falmouth would be one of them, for I was weary of the humdrum life of idling on shore or aimless sailing up and down the channel.
And two people idling in a boat get very close in thought together and come soon to know each other well.
At twenty-six years old I was an idle young man of good family, but scant expectations, supposed to be studying at the Bar, but in reality idling my time about town.

One night we were idling about the neighborhood of the Palais Royal, doubtful to what amusement we should next betake ourselves.
Then she stopped, lying still in dead water with her engine idling.
Long intervals of waiting between spells of monotonous work can hardly be used for anything but gossiping at the stage-door or idling in cafes.
Shone upon unnumbered Pasquales dwelling, working, idling, and gambling there.
Many men were idling about the passenger platform, and here and there little groups could be seen in muttered conversation.
Half his life of instruction now quickly seemed to have been idling.
One day Densuke was idling and hanging over the parapet of the Nihonbashi.
But, fast as she spun, Dame Betsy, when she returned, discovered that she had been idling, and said that she must go without her supper.
While other boys were idling in the streets, she had taught her sons all the mysteries of the printing-office, and made them able to care for themselves.
George called a hansom, of which there were dozens idling about.
He waited in his customary manner by walking round the enclosure and idling by the pool, for Wildeve was never asked into the house by his proud though condescending mistress.
Strange that such a piece of idling should have seemed an important errand.
My bedstead was formed out of an old chest, and my sole employment and amusement was idling.
They do not, however, think it necessary to leave the colony so soon as their business is settled, but remain some time after idling about the streets.
Men and women were idling about in that uneasy atmosphere which precedes the announcement of dinner.
A crowd of troopers, who had been idling about a few yards from the train, disappeared with the deafening report, and when the smoke had cleared away they were nowhere to be seen.
He was idling as if one street was the same as another, and on that day there was rain in all.
Then his eyes went to the blackened manzanita slope where Marion had been idling, and he shivered at what might have happened down there.
She was in white and looked fresh and cool and girlish and inviting as she sat idling upon the porch at the hotel.
When he ought to have been in school, he was fishing, and idling away his time along the margins of the brooks and rivers.

Similar words containing IDL without suffix ing

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