squatting meaning
Noun: squatting skwóting
- Exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
- knee bend, squat - The act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
- squat
- Sit on one's heels
"In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"
- crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down - Be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide
"The building squatted low" - Occupy (a dwelling) illegally
See also: squatter
Type of: be, leg exercise, lodge in, motility, motion, move, movement, occupy, reside, sit, sit down
Encyclopedia: Squat
SquattingExamples
More: Next- squatting down, the two of them started to have a chat.
- i want to hear all about that squatting you did.
- his father and the smith and a third man squatting on his heels inside the door were talking.
- her only worry was herb, who had become more unmanageable than ever since the squatting.
- two people are squatting at the door of the chapel