go round

Verb

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

1. To physically swirl or rotate.
2. To rotate, to move in a circle.
3. (transitive) To travel around (something) physically.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
5. (figuratively, transitive) To circulate, to move aimlessly.
6. To pass around, to circulate.
   • They say a new deadly virus is going round in South America.
7. (intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
   • "Perhaps we may at least all sit down," suggested Ellerslie, to break the silence. "There are rather a lot of us, but I think the chairs will go round."1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
8. To go to another person's home or a public event.
   • I went round and told him what I thought of him.
9. To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).
   • You can't go round stealing from unlocked cars!