go around

Related to go around: go round

go around

1. To bypass something by taking an indirect path. Go around to the back if the front door is locked.
2. To circumvent someone or something. I tried to go around Dad by asking Mom for permission, but she wasn't fooled. Is there a way to go around the security protocol?
3. To be able to be shared among a group of people. I don't want to take more green beans if there's not enough to go around.
4. To do something regularly. She just goes around thinking that everyone will love her as much as she loves herself.
5. To circulate. I'm not leaving the house if the flu is going around!
6. To rotate. The baby's been having a great time watching the Ferris wheel go around.
See also: around, go
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

go around someone

 
1. Lit. to walk or travel in such a way as to avoid hitting or touching someone. I can't move from this place right now. You'll have to go around me.
2. Idiomatic to avoid dealing with someone. I try to go around Steve. He can be very difficult. We will want to go around the boss. He will say no if asked.
See also: around, go

go around

(with someone) Go to hang around (with someone).
See also: around, go

go around doing something

to move around doing something. She keeps going around telling lies about me. Please stop going around knocking things over. She goes around helping whomever she can.
See also: around, go
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

go around

1. Also, go round. Satisfy a demand or need, as in Is there enough food to go around? [Mid-1800s]
2. Same as go about, def. 1.
3. go around with. Same as go with, def. 1.
4. go or run around in circles . Engage in excited but useless activity. For example, Bill ran around in circles trying organize us but to no avail. This idiom was first recorded in 1933. For what goes around comes around, see under full circle.
See also: around, go
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

go around

or go round
v.
1. To form or follow an indirect path that avoids something: Go around the fence if the gate is locked. Don't try to cross the marsh—go around.
2. To form or follow some circular path; loop around something: The cars have already gone around the track 200 times. Our bus almost tipped over when it went around the turn. This bracelet goes around your ankle.
3. To move in a circle around something: The earth goes around the sun once every 365 days. Could you go around to the back of the barn and get the ladder?
4. To rotate: We went to the back of the boat and watched the paddle wheel go around.
5. To go here and there; move from place to place: We went around the city with the tour group. I went around to all the shops looking for a particular type of perfume.
6. To walk around, or appear in public, especially in a particular state of dress: I used to go around in a bright yellow coat.
7. To pass or be passed from place to place or from person to person: A flu is going around, so make sure you wash your hands frequently. There are some strange stories going around about that empty house. A box of pencils is going around—please take one and pass it on.
8. To do something regularly or as a matter of course, especially in a carefree or selfish manner: He goes around boasting about his new watch. You can't go around expecting people to pay for you.
9. To satisfy the needs of a group. Used with the infinitive: There were not enough chairs to go around, so some of us sat on the floor. There is plenty of popcorn to go around.
See also: around, go
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • (have) got something going (with someone)
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • accompanied by
  • accompanied by (someone or something)
  • accompany
  • a crack at (someone or something)
  • all right
References in periodicals archive
For example, if a jet (Blue) is catching up to a Skyhawk (Red) on final, the Skyhawk might get, "Go around and offset to the right.
TAKING A LAP: While go-arounds can change ATC's immediate traffic flow, quick thinking and action can minimize the impact to the overall traffic situation
They do bad things in the dark, and yet They have the audacity to demand equal rights at a time when everyone knows there is just not enought to go around. This is why, although the Christian right may lose some (and win some) of its anti-gay-rights measures this fall, its continued targeting of gays and lesbians for hate campaigns is a sure bet.
The Christian right's anti-gay agenda
Odds are that both were focused on making their landings to the exclusion of everything else, so the need (or perceived need) to go around came as a shock to which they reacted abruptly.
Just Go Around: You mastered go-arounds from a bad approach or a runway conflict before your first solo, remember? The airplane may have changed, but nothing else has
Know from whom you expect to receive clearance for the gear--the flight member immediately behind you--and what the other flight members will have to do (go around).
Good roll to the end
I will go on the records as saying that some conservatives are stupid, but so are some liberals; there is plenty of stupidity to go around. The serious and interesting issue is how do we explain the surplus of liberals in academia....
A "clarification and reflection": still "stupid"
Brown doubts that explanation, since there seem to be plenty of bugs to go around, she says.
Why do two-sex geckos triumph? (Lizards)
"We can't go around doing seismic graphs, and we can't check without a search warrant," Donald Thornhill Jr., a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman, told the Associated Press in San Diego.
Tunnel vision. (Out of the Box)
If you choose to be a kind, gentle god and go around protecting children and healing the sick, the villagers will support you because they love you.
WORSHIP ME, THE LORD
To do that, you can't go around attacking gay rights."
Baby steps for the Cheneys
"Let's all go around like the windmill!" Sandy said.
AROUND and AROUND
Expected to open next fall, the 17,000 square-foot addition will include a fitness center, massages, body wraps, hydro therapies and "plenty of chocolate to go around."
Hershey's Hotel
Believe it or not, it's sometimes possible to go around in circles and still go someplace.
Circuit training in the wrestling room
But there was plenty of blame to go around for the defeat.
Beaten and Bushed
She said Estrada would also take his time to go around the country to thank his constituents.
Jinggoy ecstatic over Sandigan's decision
It doesn't matter why we had to go around; maybe it was ATC, maybe there's an airplane on the runway, maybe we're at the wrong airport.
Going around: aborting a landing attempt and coming back for another try isn't difficult, but smoothness counts when you're close to the ground