The word "loitering" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is hanging around in a public place without any apparent purpose. For example: "The police warned the teenagers to stop loitering outside the store".
Of the eight footballers to have asteroids named after them, 10634_Pepibican, so-named after the Czech-Austrian striker Josef Pepii" Bican and loitering about in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is the largest with a radius of, erm, 20km.
Or, rather than haphazardly dousing your pancakes in alcohol, get the shot glasses out and blow the dust off some of the weirder spirits loitering at the back of your drinks cabinet.
For example, Nick Cave and fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis have been spotted eating lunch here, while noise-rocker Bradford Cox (vocalist for Deerhunter) and instrumental experimentalists Explosions in the Sky have also been seen loitering in fashionably cool repose.
The Italian champion, who has been loitering near the front of the pack all day, has shot away into the distance.
Get the baby!" Woman 2 motioned to a man who had been loitering in the car park, who then entered the office holding up a baby.
VISITORS to Delhi's elegant parliament, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, have long witnessed a tribe of brown rhesus monkeys loitering outside picking each other's fleas a display of public-spiritedness rare among those inside.
This is the kind they see loitering outside hardware stores in search of work, and on the evening news.
"We don't try to monitor where possible bank robbers sleep .The Iowan politicians who relaxed the law gave themselves cover by adding a new rule against "loitering" near schools.
And that's not an insignificant point; loitering in the death chamber would be hard on the families (of the victim and of the offender).
He has even taken to loitering around the House of Commons in the hope of overhearing a stray rumour.
Besides those supply vessels loitering in the Indian Ocean, Japan has contributed soldiers for reconstruction work and air crews for logistics support in Iraq.
