circle around

1. 1.

   move around in a circular motion

   “The Earth revolves around the Sun”

   Synonymsrevolve aroundcircle round

   Broadercircle

Questions about circle around

What does circle around mean?

circle around means "move around in a circular motion".

What is another word for circle around?

Close synonyms include revolve around, circle round. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is circle around a common word?

circle around is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.