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Antonyms for run aroundrun around

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  1. run aroundverb

    Synonyms:
    run about

  2. run aroundverb

    To be very busy doing many different things.

    I don't want to run around all week getting everything ready for the holidays.

    Synonyms:
    run about

  3. run aroundverb

    to move from one end of the consist to the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.

    Synonyms:
    run about

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  1. frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark aboutverb

    play boisterously

    "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

    Synonyms:
    boast, sport, lark, frolic, romp, amuse, lark about, divert, rollick, disport, cavort, frisk, gambol, feature, skylark

How to use run around in a sentence?

  1. Gordon Lightfoot:

    A child is born to a welfare case/ Where the rats run around like they own the place/ The room is chilly, the building is old/ That's how it goes/ A doctor's found on his welfare rounds/ And he comes and he leaves on the double

  2. Jesse Binnall:

    It is abundantly clear that the government intended to conduct an end-run around the administrative injunction by producing alternate copies of documents that, even under the government’s incorrect interpretation of the administrative injunction, would violate its unambiguous terms, under no circumstances should the government’s misconduct and attempt to create an ad hoc record be sanctioned by this Court.

  3. Steven Wright:

    When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic.

  4. Joe Willock:

    I’m an Arsenal player so it does makes it a bit sweeter, (Manager Steve Bruce) told me to come on, run around and get in the box to try and score goals. I’m happy I was able to do that.

  5. Don McCullin:

    The press had had pretty free rein in the Vietnam War ... to run around where we want, go anywhere, see anything, but once the war was over, (there was a) feeling that it was the media that helped to lose (America) the war. We didn't.

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