sit out

verb

Alternative form of sitout.
“During seven NAACP-sponsored school “sit outs” or “holidays” in Jacksonville more than 108,000 children had been kept home by their parents to protest segregated schools and other inequities.”
“The bottom wrestler shoots both feet out as in the sit out.”
Alternative form of sit-out.
“The parent says, “If you don't start picking up your dirty clothes by the time I count to three, you will need to take a sit out.””
“A SIT OUT is required when there is a half table in the section, such as 8.5, 10.5, or 12.5 tables. There are more N/S Pairs than E/W Pairs or vice versa registered for the game.”

To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance.
“I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit out.”
“I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit it out.”
To await the cessation of, without taking part.
“A large proportion of the millhands sat out the strike in their native villages, sometimes hundreds of miles from Bombay; the remainder survived precariously in the city with the help of casual labour and rations of grain […]”
“He thinks he can sit it out and still take a slice?”
To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act.
To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position.