Just sitting around
The crossword clue "Just sitting around" is answered by IDLE, a 4-letter entry. Used 85 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
IDLE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDLE answer page.
Used 85 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for IDLE
Every other clue in this collection answered by IDLE, most used first.
- Doing nothing - used 237 times, most recently in 2026
- Not doing anything - used 165 times, most recently in 2026
- Inactive - used 154 times, most recently in 2026
- Not working - used 138 times, most recently in 2026
- Not busy - used 132 times, most recently in 2026
- Between jobs - used 87 times, most recently in 2025
- Run in neutral - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Twiddling one's thumbs - used 63 times, most recently in 2025
- Unemployed - used 61 times, most recently in 2019
- Not active - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Not in use - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Run in place - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Goofing off - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Unoccupied - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- At rest - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Not up to much - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Not doing much - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Eric of Monty Python - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Out of work - used 31 times, most recently in 2018
- Like some threats - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Pointless - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Run without moving - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Just hanging around - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- Loafing - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Vain - used 24 times, most recently in 2008
- Gathering dust - used 23 times, most recently in 2014
- Baseless - used 22 times, most recently in 2015
- Not engaged - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Unused - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Just - ONLY, used 190 times
- Stick around - STAY, used 171 times
- Swing around - SLUE, used 140 times
- Just slightly - ATAD, used 134 times
- Sitting on - ATOP, used 126 times
- Just slightly - ABIT, used 86 times
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