go around

Move in a circle or follow a path round something.

• The wheels go around slowly.
• We went around the fallen tree.
• Does this path go around the whole island?

How to use it: go around something (The road goes around the lake.)

Similar words: circle, rotate

Common phrases: go around something, go around corners

Pass from one person to another, especially news or an illness.

• A cold is going around.
• A strange rumour went around the office.
• What stories are going around about the new manager?

Similar words: spread, circulate, go about

Common phrases: go around school, go around town

There is enough of something for everyone to have a share.

• There is enough food to go around.
• We bought extra cake so there would be plenty to go around.
• Are there enough tickets to go around?

How to use it: enough something to go around (There are enough seats to go around.)

Similar words: suffice

Common phrases: enough to go around, plenty to go around

Go to someone’s home or another place to spend time there.

• I will go around later.
• She went around to her neighbour’s flat for tea.
• Shall we go around to your parents’ house tonight?

How to use it: go around to somewhere (We went around to Ben’s house after dinner.)

Similar words: visit, drop by, go round

Common phrases: go around tonight, go around later

Keep arguing about something or thinking about it without settling it.

• Must we go around over this again?
• They went around for hours over who should pay.
• I keep going around over that problem in my head.

How to use it: go around over something (They went around over the same old dispute.)

Similar words: argue, obsess

Common phrases: go around again, go around endlessly

Stop trying to land a plane and climb to try again.

• The pilot decided to go around.
• We went around because the runway was blocked.
• The tower told the aircraft to go around immediately.

Similar words: abort the landing

Common phrases: go around again, go around immediately