walk around

walk around

1. To move or pace around (some area) on foot. I need to walk around for a little while after sitting at my desk for so long. He kept walking anxiously around the room, as if he couldn't stand still.
2. To bypass or maneuver around someone or something on foot. I make a point of walking around that office building on my way to work so I won't have to worry about bumping into my ex. The only choice was to walk around the entire area.
3. To move throughout some place on foot, as during a visit. I just spent the first day of my vacation walking around the city, taking in the sights and sampling some of the local cuisine. The superintendent walked around the school as she inspected the staff, facilities, classrooms.
See also: around, walk
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

walk around something

 
1. to avoid something by passing around it. Let's walk around this muddy place in the path.
2. to tour something or some place on foot. I will walk around the park while I am waiting for you. Let me walk around the grounds and see what potential they offer.
See also: around, walk

walk around

to move around walking; to pace around. I need to walk around and get some fresh air. Why don't we walk around for a while before we go in?
See also: around, walk
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • bomb around
  • find way around
  • go around and around
  • get (someone) around the table
  • get around the table
  • gaze around at (someone or something)
  • flip around
  • around and around
  • around (one's) ears
  • gaze around
References in periodicals archive
| Plas Newydd Embark on a walk around Plas Newydd taking in all of the sights of Snowdonia, Faenol and former quarry, Camellia Dell.
THE 12 WALKS OF CHRISTMAS
Roy Thomas, Kidney Wales' chief executive, said: "Our incredible charity is 50 years old this year and the Walk Around Wales was our way of marking such a special anniversary.
Walkers complete their epic trek for charity
I just have to walk around the block, literally.' We sat there and he walked around the block and came back with two pages of lyrics.
Williams, Zimmer create 'Spidey' opera
Mum-of-four Patsy, 40, said: "I don't walk around the house naked because of the kids but I would love to.
Patsy's nudist secrets
Environmental regeneration charity Groundwork North East is holding the events to give local people a chance to take part in a walk around each site and make suggestions about how they could be improved.
Have your say; NORTH TODAY WOODLAND
HOUSING association staff will go the extra mile to complete a virtual walk around the world.
Housing staff take on global challenge
Therefore, when I walk around this city, many things look like a fight between the oblivion and the insisting for things not to get erased from memory.
Skopje
"Fun on Foot in New England: The Best Places to Run, jog, walk around Boston and throughout..." covers various jogging paths for people to use throughout the New England area and all of the states throughout and point out points of interest throughout while explaining why the reader should choose a certain path over another.
Fun on Foot in New England
My friends could not believe the soldiers were allowed to walk around looking like they had made no attempt to iron their uniforms.
Unkempt Canadians
KATE Hudson's neighbours will all be peeking through their curtains after the actress revealed she likes to walk around her home naked.
the Razz: Hudson's bare facts
Kids can IM notes while using laptops to write reports at "standing desks" or walk around while teachers podcast lessons to them.
Taking a stand
Kian, 25, revealed: "I was in a Dutch nightclub with the lads a while ago and I decided it would be really funny to borrow a girl's high heels and walk around in them.
Showblitz: Kian Egan
Let's just walk around and get a few shots of those places." I called it Lucky Three because it was.
Eyes wide open: Michael Almereyda on the films of Jem Cohen
Walk Around F-8 Crusader offers the reader an in-depth tour of the F-8 Crusader airplane, a carrier-based supersonic fighter first designed in the 1950's to serve the US Navy and used as a front line interceptor until December 1999.
Walk Around F-8 Crusader
Before you do, though, walk around the vehicle and look at the areas that were covered by tape in the paint booth.
Check the paint job