go around ( also go round British English ) phrasal verb ( see also ↑ go )
1 . DRESS/BEHAVE ( also go about British English ) to behave or dress in a particular way
go around doing something
You can’t go around accusing people like that.
He goes around in a T-shirt even in winter.
2 . ILLNESS go around (something) ( also go about (something) British English ) if an illness is going around, a lot of people get it:
He had a bad dose of the flu virus that was going around.
There are a lot of nasty bugs going around the school.
3 . NEWS/STORY go around (something) ( also go about (something) British English ) if news, a story, a joke etc is going around, a lot of people hear it and are talking about it:
A rumour was going around that I was having an affair with my boss.
There was a lot of gossip going around the village.
4 . go around with somebody/go around together ( also go about with somebody British English ) to meet someone often and spend a lot of time with them:
I used to go around with a bad crowd.
5 . enough/plenty to go around enough for each person:
Is there enough ice cream to go around?
There were never enough textbooks to go around.
6 . what goes around comes around used to say that if someone does bad things now, bad things will happen to them in the future
7 . go around in your head if words, sounds etc go around in your head, you keep remembering them for a long time:
That stupid song kept going around in my head.
⇨ go around/round in circles at ↑ circle 1 (5)