go round

verb

To physically swirl or rotate.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person goes round · participle present going round · past went round · participle past gone round

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

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

  7. intransitiveTo 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."

    1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
  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!

Translations

Finnish pyöriä, kieppua
  • pyöriäto physically swirl
  • kieppuato physically swirl
  • kääntyäto physically swirl
  • kiertyäto physically swirl
  • kääntääto rotate
  • kiertääto rotate
  • pyörittääto rotate
  • pyöriäto rotate
  • kääntyäto rotate
  • kiertyäto rotate
  • kieppuato rotate
  • välttääto travel around
German drehen, rotieren
  • drehento physically swirl
  • rotierento physically swirl
  • rundlaufento physically swirl
  • drehento rotate
  • umkreisento rotate
  • umrundento rotate
  • um etwas herumgehento travel around
  • jmdn. umgehento circumvent so.
  • etwas umgehento evade sth.
  • herumgehen(fig.) to circulate invisibly
  • etwas geht um(fig.) to circulate invisibly
  • etwas herumgehen lassento pass around (sth.)
Cite this entry
APA

go round. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20round

MLA

“go round.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20round. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “go round,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20round.

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