Other forms: stargazing; stargazes; stargazed
To stargaze is to observe the night sky. Whenever you search overhead for the Big Dipper or Orion, you stargaze.
You can stargaze using just your eyes, or peer at the stars through a telescope — unless you're a professional astronomer, you're stargazing. The ideal place to stargaze is somewhere remote, far from city lights that pollute the dark night sky. The original use of this term was derogatory; it meant "practice astrology," or act as a fortune teller. Gradually, stargaze came to have a more benign meaning, literally "gaze at the stars."