Dictionary

go round en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. To physically swirl or rotate.
2. To rotate, to move in a circle.
3. (transitive) To travel around (something) physically.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
5. (figuratively, transitive) 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.
   • "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!

Forms

Deriveds

go round in circles · make the world go round · make this world go round

Relateds

go around · merry-go-round · go-round

Translations (48)

fi kiertyä (to physically swirl) · fi tavata (to live behaving in a certain way) · fi piipahtaa (to go to another person's home or to a particular place) · fi kiertyä (to rotate) · fi kieppua (to physically swirl) · de herumgereicht werden (to pass around (sth.)) · fi väistää (to evade sth.) · fi käväistä (to go to another person's home or to a particular place) · fi välttää (to travel around) · fi väistää (to travel around) · fi kiertää (to rotate) · fi pistää eteenpäin (to pass around (sth.)) · de umkreisen (to rotate) · fi riittää kaikille (to be sufficient, be enough for everyone) · fi kääntää (to rotate) · fi pyörittää (to rotate) · de um etwas herumgehen (to travel around) · de die Runde machen (to pass around (sth.)) · fi kääntyä (to physically swirl) · de herumlaufen (to live behaving in a certain way) · de hinübergehen (to go to another person's home or to a particular place) · fi kääntyä (to rotate) · fi karttaa (to travel around) · fi päihittää (to circumvent so.) · fi käydä kylässä (to go to another person's home or to a particular place) · fi pistäytyä (to go to another person's home or to a particular place) · fi vierailla (to go to another person's home or to a particular place) · fi karttaa (to evade sth.) · fi pyöriä (to rotate) · fi olla tapana (to live behaving in a certain way) · fi pyöriä (to physically swirl) · de rundlaufen (to physically swirl) · fi mennä kylään (to go to another person's home or to a particular place) · de vorbeischauen (to go to another person's home or to a particular place) · de etwas geht um ((fig.) to circulate invisibly) · de für alle / jeden (in dieser Runde) (to be sufficient, be enough for everyone) · de rotieren (to physically swirl) · de umrunden (to rotate) · de herumrennen (to live behaving in a certain way) · de etwas umgehen (to evade sth.) · fi välttää (to evade sth.) · de etwas herumgehen lassen (to pass around (sth.)) · fi kierrättää (to pass around (sth.)) · de herumgehen ((fig.) to circulate invisibly) · de jmdn. umgehen (to circumvent so.) · fi kieppua (to rotate) · de drehen (to rotate) · de drehen (to physically swirl)