What are some opposite words for run around?
Antonyms for run aroundrun around
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run aroundverb
Synonyms:
run aboutrun 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 aboutrun 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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Princeton's WordNet
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?
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
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.
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic.
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.
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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