Wiktionary
alt. (context idiomatic English) To repeatedly do the same thing without making any progress. vb. (context idiomatic English) To repeatedly do the same thing without making any progress.
Usage examples of "go round in circles".
But I should also like those scholars who so often turn up their noses to take off their opaque spectacles and put on new clear ones in order-like Blumrich-to verify whether the fanciful Daniken does not sometimes offer paths at the end of which more real truth is to be found than on the old beaten tracks which still only go round in circles.
Because of the weakness of his whole right side, Terrel would go round in circles unless he concentrated, and though Elam made dogged progress, the chill usually affected his joints before long.
As she rose from her chair, she felt the room starting to go round in circles.
Mostly, they go round in circles, reflecting only the idiom of the day.
The fact that this only made the raft go round in circles added to his fury.