run around

run around
a) To be very busy doing many different things.

I dont want to run around all week getting everything ready for the holidays.

b) to move from one end of the consist to the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.

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  • run around — or[chase around] {v.}, {informal} To go to different places for company and pleasure; be friends. * /Tim hasn t been to a dance all year; with school work and his job, he hasn t time to run around./ * /Chuck and Jim chase around a lot together./… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • run around — or[chase around] {v.}, {informal} To go to different places for company and pleasure; be friends. * /Tim hasn t been to a dance all year; with school work and his job, he hasn t time to run around./ * /Chuck and Jim chase around a lot together./… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • run\ around — • run around • chase around v informal To go to different places for company and pleasure; be friends. Tim hasn t been to a dance all year; with school work and his job, he hasn t time to run around. Chuck and Jim chase around a lot together.… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • Run around — can refer to: *Runaround, a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov *Runaround (game show), a children s television game show originally devised by Heatter Quigley Productions in the USA in 1971 2 *Run around, a song written by Blues Traveler …   Wikipedia

  • Run-around — Run a*round , n. (Med.) A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • run-around — [n] avoidance come off, delay, detour, difficulty, diversion, elusion, escape, escaping, eschewal, evasion, inertia, postponement, roundabout, shunning; concepts 30,121 Ant. challenge, facing, meeting …   New thesaurus

  • run around — verb play boisterously (Freq. 3) The children frolicked in the garden the gamboling lambs in the meadows The toddlers romped in the playroom • Syn: ↑frolic, ↑lark, ↑rollick, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • Run-Around — Infobox Single Name = Run Around Artist = Blues Traveler from Album = four B side = Trust In Trust Regarding Steven The Poignant and Epic Saga of Featherhead and Lucky Lack Escaping Released = February 28, 1995 Format = CD Recorded = Spring 1994… …   Wikipedia

  • run around — phrasal verb run around or run round [intransitive] Word forms run around : present tense I/you/we/they run around he/she/it runs around present participle running around past tense ran around past participle run around to be very busy doing a… …   English dictionary

  • run around — v. (D; intr.) to run around with (he run arounds around with a fast crowd) * * * [ rʌnə raʊnd] (D; intr.) to run around with (he run arounds around with a fast crowd) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • run around — UK US run around Phrasal Verb with run({{}}/rʌn/ verb (running, ran, run) ► to be very busy doing a lot of different things: »I ve been running around all morning trying to get things ready for the conference …   Financial and business terms

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