run around
verb- To be very busy doing many different things. · I don't want to run around all week getting everything ready for the holidays.
- To go from place to place.
- To move from one end of the consist to the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.
- To cheat; to be unfaithful to a romantic partner.
- To change one's position on the court to hit a forehand rather than a backhand, or vice versa.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around. · The children ran around in the playground.
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