go round

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go round (third-person singular simple present goes round, present participle going round, simple past went round, past participle gone round)

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

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

7. (intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
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!

• go around
• go-round
• merry-go-round

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