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go in circles

go in circles is the alternative form of go round in circles.

Meaning of go round in circles

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To repeatedly do the same thing without making any progress.

Forms of go in circles

third-person singular presentgoes in circles
present participlegoing in circles
pastwent in circles
past participlegone in circles

Questions about go in circles

What is go in circles the alternative form of?
Go in circles is the alternative form of go round in circles.

Words near go in circles in the dictionary

  1. go howl at the moon
  2. go hungry
  3. go hunting where the ducks are
  4. go in
  5. go in at one ear and at out the other
  6. go in circles
  7. go in for
  8. go in off
  9. go in on
  10. go in one ear and out the other
  11. go in the out door

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Adapted from Wiktionary: go in circles (page history and authors); go round in circles (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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