The Collaborative International Dictionary
Run-around \Run"-a*round`\, n. (Med.) A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone. [Colloq.]
Wikipedia
"Run-Around" is a song by American jam band Blues Traveler, featured on the 1994 album Four. It won the band's first Grammy Award in 1995, for "Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group." The song was the band's breakthrough hit, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Usage examples of "run-around".
The Culture - the real Culture, the wily ones, not these semi-mystical Elenchers with their miserable hankering to be somebody else - had been known to give whole Affronter fleets the run-around for several months with not dissimilar enticements and subterfuges, keeping them occupied, seemingly on the track of some wildly promising prey which turned out to be nothing at all, or a Culture ship with some ridiculous but earnestly argued excuse, while the Culture or one of its snivelling client species got on - or away - with something else somewhere else, spoiling rightful Affronter fun.