to be very busy doing a lot of different things
Children would run around playing with the stray dogs and cats; women would wash their clothes out or be cooking.
I’ve been running around all day.
She began to run around the circle, Corwin following hard on her heels.
This meeting was arranged at our insistence because you have repeatedly given this bank the run around.
`He's one bloke I can't afford to run around, I'm afraid, Alec.
runs around
running around
ran around
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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