sitting in
Covering for someone
Sitting in is participating temporarily in place of a regular member, or joining a group as a guest.
A musician sits in with a band for a set.
Someone sits in for an absent colleague at a meeting.
The phrase also describes a form of protest where demonstrators occupy a space and refuse to leave—a sit-in.
- seatedIn a chair
- front rowNearest tier of seats
- back seatVehicle's second row
- easy chairComfortable upholstered seating
- stand-inTemporary human placeholder
deputizing · proxy · substitute · civil disobedience · boycott · lap · occupation · fill in · on behalf of · demonstration · acting · staying · chair · interim · sedentary · temporary · alternate · attending
- cyclingbikes, bicycles, cycling, cyclist, cyclists
- jazz slangaxe, cat, chops, gig, lick
- ways to participateattending, joining, volunteering, competing, participating
- racing tacticsovertaking, drafting, late braking, racing line, pit strategy
- filling infilling in, cramming, inserting, stuffing, packing
- passive watchingwatching, viewing, observing, spectating, lurking
sitting inpermanent
Fixed without end
full-time · incumbent · appointed · tenured · established
sitting insitting out
Declining to participate
opting out · abstaining · withdrawing · recusing · bowing out
sitting insitting out
Declining to participate
absent · missing · away · skipping · bowing out
sit, settle, inn, sitting, settling, sits, sitter, settee, sit-in