to go around

Examples

• All

• "Just go around the back of this building, past the support facility, and you'll see the pen.

  Fiction book (1990)

• - I'll be going around back a different way to try to surround them.

  Lycan Colony (2006)

• Listen, either I can go around you, or I can go through you.

  Big Momma's House (2000)

• You go around the other side.

  An Ideal Host (2020)

• Pull out and go around the corner.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Go around and find out what's going on back there!

  Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

• You go around, I'll distract him.

  Camp Blood 8: Revelations (2020)

• We'll head back and we'll go around; that's safer.

  Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

• If you try to go around me and my family to get to him, you'll regret it.

  Fiction book (1999)

• - Let's go around.

  Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Synonyms

F

to flank

vsto go around

60 5.0

To move to the side of something, often to gain an advantage

is more about a battle move aiming to attack or avoid direct confrontation

W

to walk around

vsto go around

46 1.1

To go on foot around the edge of something instead of through it

is a tactical military movement around an opposing army to attack or avoid confrontation

C

to circle around

vsto go around

21 2.3

Move in a round path around someone or something

is used for moving around an opposing force to attack or avoid front

M

to move around

vsto go around

19 1.3

To go around something to get to the other side

is a tactical maneuver against an opposing force rather than against objects

O

to outflank

vsto go around

5 7.2

To move around the side of an enemy to attack from behind

is the more general phrase used without formal tactical wording

C

to circle round

vsto go around

3.5

Move around something or someone in a circle

is movement around an opposing force aiming to gain advantage or avoid fight

Antonyms

C

to confront

310 4.1

Face someone directly in an angry or challenging way to accuse them

How Indirect

to encircle

33 3.4

to go around

• Specialized

49 5.1

to outflank

5 7.2

to feint

2 8.2

head-on

42 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology