go round

English

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

To physically swirl or rotate.
To rotate, to move in a circle.
(transitive) To travel around (something) physically.
(transitive, figurative) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
(transitive, figurative) To circulate, to move aimlessly.
To pass around, to circulate.
They say a new deadly virus is going round in South America.
(intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
To go to another person's home or a public event.
I went round and told him what I thought of him.
To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).
You can't go round stealing from unlocked cars!

to physically swirl

to rotate

to bypass something

to circumvent so.

to evade sth.

(fig.) to circulate invisibly

to pass around (sth.)

Finnish: kierrättää (fi), pistää eteenpäin
German: etwas herumgehen lassen, herumgereicht werden, die Runde machen (de) (idiom)

to be sufficient, be enough for everyone

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

to live behaving in a certain way

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