go around

(in BRIT, also use go round)

1) PHRASAL VERB If you go around to someone's house, you go to visit them at their house.

[V P to n] I asked them to go around to the house to see if they were there...

[V P to-inf] Mike went round to see them.

2) PHRASAL VERB If you go around in a particular way, you behave or dress in that way, often as part of your normal life.

[V P prep] I had got in the habit of going around with bare feet...

[V P -ing] If they went around complaining publicly, they might not find it so easy to get another job. [Also V P adj]

3) PHRASAL VERB If a piece of news or a joke is going around, it is being told by many people in the same period of time.

[V P] There's a nasty sort of rumour going around about it.

Syn:

circulate

4) PHRASAL VERB If there is enough of something to go around, there is enough of it to be shared among a group of people, or to do all the things for which it is needed.

[V P] Eventually we will not have enough water to go around.