Definition of "truanting" []

• Present participle of truant. (verb)

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• "Scott's picture centres on a 16-year-old schoolboy (played by the director's now almost equally famous brother, Tony) truanting from school for a lyrical cycle ride around the dockland area of the film-maker's native north-east England."
• "Some 315 of the 461 had an identified reason for such regular absenteeism, such as a medical illness, a bout of ill-health or persistent truanting, and three of the 315 had already been diagnosed as having CFS."
• "The majority of my students were kids who had either been excluded from school because of disruptive behaviour, or who had dropped out of the school system of their own volition and spent several years truanting before landing in my class."