run aroundverb

• 1

  To be very busy doing many different things.

  • I don't want to run around all week getting everything ready for the holidays.
• 2

  To go from place to place.

  • “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”
• 3

  rail-transportrailwaystransportTo move from one end of the consist to the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.

• 4

  slangTo cheat; to be unfaithful to a romantic partner.

• 5

  hobbieslifestylesportsTo change one's position on the court to hit a forehand rather than a backhand, or vice versa.

  • He'd gotten into tremendous shape so that he could run around his backhand and avoid hitting it altogether. He even tried a left-handed forehand. That was how desperate he was.
• 6

  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around.

  • The children ran around in the playground.

run aroundnoun

• 1

  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around.

  • We let the dog off the lead so it could have a run around.

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• runaround