[FEATURE] hovering or showing a tooltip with the word's definition would make the spinner words both fun and educational.

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing requests and this feature hasn't been requested yet
• [x] This is a single feature request (not multiple features)

Problem Statement

Sock-hopping?

⏺ Ha — yes, that's another one. They're deliberately random and whimsical — Claude Code cycles through a big list of
present-participle "-ing" words while working, mixing:

• Cooking: sautéeing, simmering, marinating…
• Dancing: sock-hopping, waltzing…
• Random/absurd: contemplating, percolating, ruminating…

They don't mean anything specific — they're just a fun way to show "still working" without a boring spinner. The
actual action being performed is shown in the tool calls, not the loading word.

✻ Brewed for 6s

❯ Good. I like it. But if has meaning in the bracket then I can also enjoy what it means.

⏺ That's a great idea — hovering or showing a tooltip with the word's definition would make the spinner words both fun
and educational.

That said, this would be a change to the Claude Code CLI itself (not the quiz app), so it's not something we can
implement here. You could suggest it as a feature request at:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

Worth filing — it's a nice quality-of-life touch that fits the spirit of those words already being playful.

Proposed Solution

What is the meaning of spinners "Sock-hopping"?

⏺ Ha — yes, that's another one. They're deliberately random and whimsical — Claude Code cycles through a big list of
present-participle "-ing" words while working, mixing:

• Cooking: sautéeing, simmering, marinating…
• Dancing: sock-hopping, waltzing…
• Random/absurd: contemplating, percolating, ruminating…

They don't mean anything specific — they're just a fun way to show "still working" without a boring spinner. The
actual action being performed is shown in the tool calls, not the loading word.

✻ Brewed for 6s

❯ Good. I like it. But if has meaning in the bracket then I can also enjoy what it means.

⏺ That's a great idea — hovering or showing a tooltip with the word's definition would make the spinner words both fun
and educational.

That said, this would be a change to the Claude Code CLI itself (not the quiz app), so it's not something we can
implement here. You could suggest it as a feature request at:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

Worth filing — it's a nice quality-of-life touch that fits the spirit of those words already being playful.

Alternative Solutions

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Priority

Critical - Blocking my work

Feature Category

CLI commands and flags

Use Case Example

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Additional Context

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