Every Spinner Verb in Claude Code
The verbs that show up while Claude Code is thinking are called spinner verbs. In Claude Code version 2.1.42, there are 185 of them. Here is the full list of all spinner verbs that Claude Code shows:
A
- Accomplishing
- Actioning
- Actualizing
- Architecting
B
- Baking
- Beaming
- Beboppin’
- Befuddling
- Billowing
- Blanching
- Bloviating
- Boogieing
- Boondoggling
- Booping
- Bootstrapping
- Brewing
- Burrowing
C
- Calculating
- Canoodling
- Caramelizing
- Cascading
- Catapulting
- Cerebrating
- Channeling
- Channelling
- Choreographing
- Churning
- Clauding
- Coalescing
- Cogitating
- Combobulating
- Composing
- Computing
- Concocting
- Considering
- Contemplating
- Cooking
- Crafting
- Creating
- Crunching
- Crystallizing
- Cultivating
D
- Deciphering
- Deliberating
- Determining
- Dilly-dallying
- Discombobulating
- Doing
- Doodling
- Drizzling
E
- Ebbing
- Effecting
- Elucidating
- Embellishing
- Enchanting
- Envisioning
- Evaporating
F
- Fermenting
- Fiddle-faddling
- Finagling
- Flambéing
- Flibbertigibbeting
- Flowing
- Flummoxing
- Fluttering
- Forging
- Forming
- Frolicking
- Frosting
G
- Gallivanting
- Galloping
- Garnishing
- Generating
- Germinating
- Gitifying
- Grooving
- Gusting
H
- Harmonizing
- Hashing
- Hatching
- Herding
- Honking
- Hullaballooing
- Hyperspacing
I
- Ideating
- Imagining
- Improvising
- Incubating
- Inferring
- Infusing
- Ionizing
J
- Jitterbugging
- Julienning
K
- Kneading
L
- Leavening
- Levitating
- Lollygagging
M
- Manifesting
- Marinating
- Meandering
- Metamorphosing
- Misting
- Moonwalking
- Moseying
- Mulling
- Musing
- Mustering
N
- Nebulizing
- Nesting
- Newspapering
- Noodling
- Nucleating
O
- Orbiting
- Orchestrating
- Osmosing
P
- Perambulating
- Percolating
- Perusing
- Philosophising
- Photosynthesizing
- Pollinating
- Pondering
- Pontificating
- Pouncing
- Precipitating
- Prestidigitating
- Processing
- Proofing
- Propagating
- Puttering
- Puzzling
Q
- Quantumizing
R
- Razzle-dazzling
- Razzmatazzing
- Recombobulating
- Reticulating
- Roosting
- Ruminating
S
- Sautéing
- Scampering
- Schlepping
- Scurrying
- Seasoning
- Shenaniganing
- Shimmying
- Simmering
- Skedaddling
- Sketching
- Slithering
- Smooshing
- Sock-hopping
- Spelunking
- Spinning
- Sprouting
- Stewing
- Sublimating
- Swirling
- Swooping
- Symbioting
- Synthesizing
T
- Tempering
- Thinking
- Thundering
- Tinkering
- Tomfoolering
- Topsy-turvying
- Transfiguring
- Transmuting
- Twisting
U
- Undulating
- Unfurling
- Unravelling
V
- Vibing
W
- Waddling
- Wandering
- Warping
- Whatchamacalliting
- Whirlpooling
- Whirring
- Whisking
- Wibbling
- Working
- Wrangling
Z
- Zesting
- Zigzagging