go around

go around (third-person singular simple present goes around, present participle going around, simple past went around, past participle gone around)

1. (intransitive) To move or spread from person to person.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     “ […] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […] ”

   The rumor is going around that Mr. X and Ms. Y are having an affair.   There's a cough going around.

2. (intransitive) To be shared with everyone.

   There's plenty of fish to go around.

3. (intransitive, aviation) To perform a go-around maneuver.

   ATC told the flight to go around because another plane was still on the runway.

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ around.

   Let's make the wheels go around.

• get around
• go round