WordNet
adv. without making progress; "the candidates talked in circles" [syn: in a circle]
Usage examples of "in circles".
Then I crawled down the rungs into the field, strapped boards on my feet, and started walking in circles.
She remembered the old cobber who needed a guide-bug to keep from walking in circles.
Anyone who even tried to follow me would go in circles until he found himself where he had started.
A huge snake from the marshes of Illian, four times as long as a man, earned nearly as many gasps as the s'redit, although simply lying there, apparently asleep, but she was pleased to- see that Latelle's bears, at the moment standing atop huge red wooden balls that they rolled in circles with their feet, attracted few more than the dogs.
We were driving around in circles, weaving through the parking lot of a place I thought was the Dunes, but it turned out to be the Thunderbird or maybe it was the Hacienda My attorney was scanning The Vegas Visitor, looking for hints of action.
Elbereth's blade spun in circles about Ragnor's, then poked ahead, into the ogrillon's arm.
The captain shouted a command in Ungrian, and half the men milling around scattered so swiftly that Hanna felt spun in circles although she didn't move.