cluster around

cluster around (someone or something)

1. To gather around someone or something. The kids clustered around the clown to watch him make balloon animals.
2. To position someone or something around someone or something else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "cluster" and "around." Mom clustered the kids around the clown so that they could all see him make balloon animals. Now we need to cluster the purple flowers around the white ones.
See also: around, cluster
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cluster someone or something around someone or something

to bunch people or things together around someone or something. She clustered the cups around the punch bowl. Karen clustered the children around the fire.
See also: around, cluster

cluster around someone or something

[for a group of people or things] to bunch together, surrounding someone or something. The birds clustered around the chimney top to keep warm. The kids clustered around the police officer.
See also: around, cluster
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • cluster
  • cluster around (someone or something)
  • collect around
  • collect around (someone or something)
  • collected
  • entwine
  • entwine around
  • entwine around (someone or something)
  • carry (someone or something) about
  • carry about
References in periodicals archive
"They usually cluster around window frames and they cluster together to gather heat and hibernate in winter months."
It's that time where we all cluster around the patient and agree that they are the patient and we are the doctors.
Faces in semi-dark cluster around a solo, edging toward a town of steel
Construction of an innovation cluster around Nazarbayev University will begin next year, rector of Nazarbayev University Shigeo Katsu told a press conference after signing of a memorandum of cooperation between JSC "Samruk-Kazyna" and Nazarbayev University.
"If visitors can have a thoroughly entertaining weekend, while at the same time gaining an understanding of the importance of the growing renewable energy cluster around the estuary, then it will have been a real success."
These are small lumps that appear either on their own or as a small cluster around the genital or anal area.
The truth is the Heritage lobby have an agenda to block the LiverpoolWaters scheme and are using devious tactics to achieve this.Having already accepted the case for a tall building cluster around Princes Dock, English Heritage object to the second cluster in the Central Docks, miles from the Pier Head.
One oddity was discovered in 2009, when researchers led by Caltech professor of planetary science Oded Aharonson found that Titan's methane lakes tend to cluster around its poles-and noted that there are more lakes in the northern hemisphere than in the south.
AFTERMATH Emergency workers cluster around the car following the accident which killed a woman at Corbridge in Northumberland yesterday
The applications cluster around engine balancing and engine mounting systems for automobiles.
"Environmental" in a different sense describes Andy Manley's one-man show My House, in which an audience of 25 gathers in an interactive cluster around a colorful box full of surprises.
This is added to the movement of the solar system relative to the local star cluster, 4937 miles, and the 74,062-mile orbit of the star cluster around the centre of the Milky Way.
"Lobbies cluster around Capitol Hill like ants around an ant hill, scurrying, buttonholing, importuning, occasionally giving testimony, always currying favor to preserve or augment their place in the sun if not their share of all those lovely federal spending goodies threatened of late by the budget-cutters' ax....
For now, the silent males cluster around the few remaining chirpers in order to meet female crickets.
A new model of Titan's atmosphere predicts fierce storms generated by thick hydrocarbon clouds that cluster around the moon's south pole.