go round

English

Verb

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. To go around the side of sth., to bypass something.
4. To circumvent or to outmanoeuvre someone.
5. To evade sth.
6. (fig.) To circulate, to move aimlessly but ghostly (threateningly and invisibly).
7. To pass around, to circulate sth.
8. To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
9. To go to another person's home or a public event.
10. To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification)

Translations

to physically swirl

• German: drehen (de) (reflexive), rotieren (de), rundlaufen (without problems)

to rotate

• German: drehen (de) (reflexive), umkreisen (de), umrunden (de)

to bypass something

• German: um etwas herumgehen

to circumvent so.

• German: jmdn. umgehen (unstressed prefix)

to evade sth.

• German: etwas umgehen (unstressed prefix)

(fig.) to circulate invisibly

• German: herumgehen (de), etwas geht um

to pass around (sth.)

• German: etwas herumgehen lassen, herumgereicht werden, die Runde machen (de) (idiom)

to be sufficient, be enough for everyone

• German: für alle / jeden (in dieser Runde)

to go to another person's home or to a particular place

• German: vorbeischauen (de), hinübergehen

to live behaving in a certain way

• German: herumlaufen (de), herumrennen (de)

See also

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

Anagrams

• goudron