Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance. 2 (context idiomatic English) To not participate.
WordNet
v. not participate in (an activity, such as a dance or a sports event); "He sat out the game"
endure to the end
Usage examples of "sit out".
Magruder had never realized how hard it would be to have to sit out the fighting back in Air Ops, surrounded by constant reminders of the situation facing the men in the air but without the means to take direct action.
Even if the charges against the Chicago Hackers are upheld in a court of law and it's found they did indeed sit out the World Wide Web Series by running strong expert systems in place of themselves, what does that prove?
Enough tables and chairs so that four hundred people can sit out under the stars drinking coffee or Cokes.
I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.
They used to sit out on the picnic table and whisper until Judith shooed them inside.
Nobody wanted to sit out here on the picnic table at night and talk about whatever sent her here?
How much longer are we supposed to sit out there staring at that damn island?
If I may not lean on my stick as I go, then I will sit out here, until it pleases Thé.
Mailey, Luebeck had managed to sit out the Thirty Years War in the past of Larry's own world pretty much unscathed, maintaining its neutrality with shrewd diplomacy.
If he hadn't had to basically sit out the war guarding Becky in Amsterdam, he'd have gotten it by now.
He implied that one ought not to sit out on Chelsea Embankment without a male escort.
Higher up still the great bird went circling round in the blue ether as of old, while the golden sunshine lit up the grandfather's hut, and all the ground about it was warm and dry again so that one might sit out where one liked.
Actually, it wasn't much as landmarks go, just a place where you could hang out, where you could wait for your dealer and sit out the goddamned gray-yellow day.
She knows better than to sit out on the terrace all afternoon talking shop with her cronies while her other guests languish unnoticed and unappreciated.