go around

phrasal verb go around or go round
Word forms "go around":
present tense I/you/we/they go around he/she/it goes around present participle going around past tense went around past participle gone around

1) British

[intransitive] to visit a person or a place

I went around last night, but no one was in.

go around to:

Are you going around to Tom's after work?

2) go around or go about or go round

[intransitive] to behave or be dressed in a particular way

Why do you always go around without any shoes on?

go around doing something:

You can't go around saying things like that!

3) go around or go about or go round

go around something [intransitive/transitive, usually progressive] if something such as an illness or a piece of news is going around, people are giving or telling it to each other

He caught a nasty flu virus that's been going around.

There's a story going around the office that you're thinking of leaving.

4) go around or go about or go round

go around with/together [intransitive] to spend a lot of time with someone, going to different places and doing things

She used to go around with Susannah all the time.

5) British

[intransitive] to be enough so that everyone can have one or some be enough to go around:

In some classes, there aren't even enough books to go around.

6) British

[intransitive] to move in a circle

The hands of the clock seemed to go around so slowly.

7) what goes around comes around used for saying that the way that you behave towards other people will influence the way that other people behave towards you in the future