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run around in circles

run around 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 run around in circles

third-person singular presentruns around in circles
present participlerunning around in circles
pastran around in circles
past participlerun around in circles

Questions about run around in circles

What is run around in circles the alternative form of?
Run around in circles is the alternative form of go round in circles.

Words near run around in circles in the dictionary

  1. run and gunned
  2. run and repeat
  3. run and repeated
  4. run around
  5. run around after
  6. run around in circles
  7. run around like a chicken with its head cut off
  8. run around with
  9. run around with one's hair on fire
  10. run arounds
  11. run at

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Adapted from Wiktionary: run around 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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