go round
UK US go around— phrasal verb with go uk/ɡəʊ/us/ɡoʊ/verb present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone
(SPIN)
to spin like a wheel
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revolve
rotate
Examples
- The discussion kept going round in circles.
- A dynamo on a bicycle will power a pair of lights while the wheels are going round.
- The Earth takes approximately 365 days to go round the Sun.
- It must be broken. The CD's not going round.
- The children went round and round on the carousel.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Revolving, rotating and spinning
- centrifugal
- centripetal
- Foucault pendulum
- gyrate
- in rotation idiom
- pirouette
- rev
- rotation
- round and round idiom
- rpm
- sidespin
- span
- spin
- spin (sb) around
- swing
- swing (sth/sb) around
- tailspin
- twiddle
- wheel
- wheel round
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(BE ENOUGH)
If there is enough of something to go round, there is enough for everyone in a group of people:
Are there enough pencils to go round?
More examples
- There weren't enough chairs to go round.
- Are there enough leaflets to go round?
- Let me know if there are not enough glasses to go round.
- You'll have to share the handouts if there aren't enough to go round.
- There was more than enough custard to go round.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Enough
- adequate
- cover
- enough
- fill
- go
- good
- hold
- hold out
- respectable
- respectably
- say
- say when idiom
- suffice
- suffice (it) to say idiom
- sufficiency
- sufficient
- that
- that will do idiom
- the
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Scarce, inadequate and not enough
(BEHAVE BADLY)
to spend your time behaving in the stated way:
[ + -ing verb ] You can't go round being rude to people.
More examples
- She went round slagging off her ex-boyfriend.
- You'll get into trouble if you keep going round behaving like that.
- He was going round looking for a fight.
- She went round looking moody.
- You can't go round ignoring people when they speak to you.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Bad and wrong behaviour
- act
- act out
- act up
- angel
- astray
- at your worst idiom
- be no angel idiom
- cross
- go off the rails idiom
- impossible
- incorrigible
- indecorous
- kick
- rail
- rough
- step
- step out of line idiom
- step/be out of line idiom
- terrible twins
- try it on idiom
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(VISIT)
to visit someone in their home:
I'm just going round to Martha's for half an hour.
I'll go round later and see how he is.
More examples
- We go round every Wednesday afternoon.
- She was just about to go round to the neighbours when the phone rang.
- We are going round for dinner on Saturday.
- We often go round on a Saturday night.
- We're going round to Ian's for dinner next Friday.