Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic intransitive English) To be very busy doing many different things. 2 (context idiomatic intransitive English) To go from place to place.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Run around or runaround may refer to:
- "Runaround" (story), a short story by Isaac Asimov
- Runaround (game show), an American children's television show
- Runaround (UK game show), an adaptation of the U.S. show
- Run around coil, a heat exchanger system where an intermediate coil is used to transfer heat
- Run around, a maneuver for reversing a train's direction; see Glossary of rail terminology
- Run-around loop, a track arrangement allowing this maneuver
- Runaround (typography), where text conforms to an irregular shape or intrusion
Usage examples of "run around".
The Reds aren't any more likely than we are to run around at night.
They all have these green spots on their skin, and they run around trying to convert everybody.
You think now your job is to be an unpaid doctor, to run around and plug up the holes and make everything smooth.
It was less than five minutes work to place another array of pitons in a parabolic curve along the surface, and set up catapult cables to run around the array.
The Flynns cheat and lie and run around, but every minute with them is an adventure.
Making sure they don't run around with scissors, or put things in their mouths, and learn to share their toys.
So if you're going to run around risking your life for the Empire, you might as well do it with the very best.
With Tisiphone to run around in the computer nets and skim thoughts, we shouldn't have too much trouble lining up a less-than-legal shipment headed in the right general direction.