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View synonyms for run around

run around

verb

  1. often foll by with to associate habitually (with)
  2. to behave in a fickle or promiscuous manner


noun

  1. informal.
    deceitful or evasive treatment of a person (esp in the phrase give or get the run-around )
  2. printing an arrangement of printed matter in which the column width is narrowed to accommodate an illustration

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Example Sentences

Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.

So is the literal “turkey point of view” offered by the GoPros attached to the turkeys as they run around the coop.

Sprint: Athletes run around trying to get a cellphone signal.

I have my dog on tour, which is a blast, but sometimes she likes to run into the venues and run around the stage.

By bringing everything up, right now, Kerry does an end run around that tradition, while also deftly avoiding any specifics.

Mr. Towne did not do much last winter, Mary said, beside run around with Naughty Nan.

Ive been ordering things for dinner; we have dinner at four, so I can afford to run around town in the morning.

Now Greedy Fawn could not reach across the kettle, to stir the porridge with his stick, so he began to run around it.

If he was going to get out so he could run around the garden, he would have to do it by jumping clear over the wire fence.

I begged her to show common sense and not run around so incessantly.

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