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looking round

looking round is the present participle and gerund of look round.

Meaning of look round

Verb

look round (third-person singular simple present looks round, present participle looking round, simple past and past participle looked round)

  1. (idiomatic) To inspect a building or area.
    • We're interested in buying this house, can we look round tomorrow?
  2. (idiomatic) To search a place.
    • I can't find my keys, so I'll look round.
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To turn one's head to see what is behind oneself.
    • He heard a voice and looked round to see a man wearing dark clothes.

Questions about looking round

What is looking round the present participle and gerund of?
Looking round is the present participle and gerund of look round.

Words near looking round in the dictionary

  1. looking out for someone
  2. looking over
  3. looking over one's shoulder
  4. looking past
  5. looking right through
  6. looking round
  7. looking shy
  8. looking snappy
  9. looking the other way
  10. looking the part
  11. looking through

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looking round (page history and authors); look round (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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