What is "doing the rounds"

Usage examples of "doing the rounds".

At her side, Scott-Brown was exerting his formidable charm: there were a number of Base officers who had a clear and undeserved priority: Ericson, doing the rounds of his guests, delayed near her for a long time, talking and making her laugh.

One more time, he had told the men, doing the rounds of the fires.

This must be highly automated, doing the rounds of the refineries and hauling back metals and polymer sacks of powders and liquids.

One was taking a restroom break and the other was doing the rounds of the upper floors.

He made vague sightseeing tours of the city: a motor-boat trip along the Chao Phraya and the market canals, a look at the Monastery of the Dawn and the Emerald Buddha in the Wat Phra Keo, doing the rounds, taking his time, enjoying himself while I had to sit with the AO Jupiters focused at a hundred yards and one foot over the clutch, one hand on the starter switch, the gear already in, one eye on the mirror so that I didn't smash someone up if I had to take two seconds to get out of a parking gap it had taken twenty minutes to find.

There'd been stories doing the rounds about what had been going on in Dilsmead Hall.

There are further complications too, such as why long-baseline radio telescope arrays should detect aberration when there's no tube for photons to move sideways in, and the theories and arguments currently doing the rounds to try and account for them could bog us down for the rest of this book.

As it was the lunch hour the morning services were over and comparatively few sightseers were doing the rounds of the famous monuments.

Shiv shot a regretful glance toward the cart-girl Larrel, who was doing the rounds with a tray of bread and cut meats to placate the hungry customers.