Wintering

Verb

1. Present participle of winter

Full definition of wintering

Noun

1. The act of staying at a place throughout the winter.
• 2003, William J. Mills, Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical EncyclopediaOther winterings followed in 1795 and on four occasions in the 1820s, but one in 1834–1835 ended with the death of all members of a seven-man party.