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go round

verb

  1. to swirl or rotate
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To physically swirl or rotate.
  2. To rotate, to move in a circle.
  3. To travel around (something) physically.
  4. To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
  5. To circulate, to move aimlessly.
  6. To pass around, to circulate.

    They say a new deadly virus is going round in South America.

  7. To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.

    "Perhaps we may at least all sit down," suggested Ellerslie, to break the silence. "There are rather a lot of us, but I think the chairs will go round."

  8. To go to another person's home or a public event.

    I went round and told him what I thought of him.

  9. To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).

    You can't go round stealing from unlocked cars!