As verbs the difference between circling and orbiting
is that circling is present participle of lang=en while orbiting is present participle of orbit.
As a noun circling
is a circular motion.
circling
English
Verb
(head)
Noun
(
en noun)
A circular motion.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings .