intransitive verb. To be in a dormant or torpid state during a hot dry period, such as the summer months.

intransitive verb. To spend the summer, especially at a different place from one's usual residence.

To pass the summer, as in a given place or in a given manner.

In zoology, to pass into or remain in the summer sleep, as some mollusks; be dormant in summer.

verb. To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.

verb. sleep during summer

"They hibernate — they estivate and they hibernate — until the following January, when you will have forgotten what a pain it was to follow the show week after unrewarding week, and you'll be able to feel excited by the return of the boinging theme music, and the old panel of judges, who will file in wearily and act pained that they have to sit through it all again."

hibernate  

estival  estivation  

catch some z's  kip  log z's  sleep  slumber  

estivated  estivates  estivating