WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

waiting game
    n 1: a strategy of delay

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

67 Moby Thesaurus words for "waiting game":
   a wise passiveness, acceptance, contemplation, contemplative life,
   do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy,
   endurance, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, fortitude,
   idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indolence, indulgence,
   inertia, inertness, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism,
   lenience, leniency, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity,
   meditation, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement,
   nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence,
   nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance,
   passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity,
   patience, patience of Job, patientness, perseverance, policy,
   procrastination, quiescence, quietism, self-control, stagnancy,
   stagnation, standpattism, stasis, stoicism, sufferance,
   sweet reasonableness, tolerance, toleration, vegetation,
   vita contemplativa, waiting it out, watching and waiting