Although one hears tales of starving artists and writers of the past summering in a cottage by the sea, these days only children, the ill, and the unemployed can afford to estivate [from the Latin for "summer"]. Why is that? See: HIBERNATE, VACATION.

sleep during summer; "certain animals estivate"

to spend da damn summer. Ah be baaad...

Same as Æstival, Æstivate, etc.