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run round in circles

run round 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 round in circles

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

Questions about run round in circles

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

Words near run round in circles in the dictionary

  1. run rates
  2. run rings around
  3. run rings round
  4. run riot
  5. run roughshod over
  6. run round in circles
  7. run scared
  8. run sheep run
  9. run sheet
  10. run sheets
  11. run short

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Adapted from Wiktionary: run round 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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