orbit, n.Definitions

Orbit is falling toward something forever.

Orbit is not a social force. It's just

Orbit is free fall.

Orbit is one big free-fall involving so much forward motion that you never get to what you're falling towards.

Orbit is controlled falling around the earth where your arc just misses land.

Orbit is nothing other than falling towards the Earth, only the object has just the right amount of foward speed that it slips behind the curvature of the Earth and so stays at a constant height.

Orbit is a state of falling forever at the same rate that the curvature of the earth drops away from you.