VACATIONING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of taking a vacation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("vacationing" is a kind of...):

leisure (freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vacationing"):

busman's holiday (a holiday where you do the same things you do at work)

caravanning (the practice of taking holidays in a caravan)

Derivation:

vacation (spend or take a vacation)

-ing form of the verb vacation