to move around
46
1.8
- phrasal verb
:
desplazarse
- I used to move around a lot when I was a kid.
- move around the country
Oh, here we go Steadicam moving around around the world.
- Oh, here we go Steadicam moving around around the world.
- I'll just be that chubby kid that was moving around from country to country.
- It's been a unique time with moving around and, and trying different things.
- The natural world is it's, it's where we move around and negotiate and live and die.
Examples
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We used to live in Lake Charles, but my dad got a job where he moves around a lot.
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There are members of the resistance moving around the country all the time.
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Now, try and move around every day, all right?
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Don't you get tired of moving around so much?
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I guess we've all moved around, we're all running from something.
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Being in the military like I am, we tend to move around a lot, and basically I just throw everything in my truck and dump it in the garage.
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People do business over greater distances and move around much more and much farther than they did in earlier eras.
Academic text (2009) -
In a global system, corporations can move around in search of low taxes, cheap labor, and scant social regulation.
Academic text (2008) -
The small frieze thus gives an impression of a unified procession moving around the entire altar.
Academic text (1990) -
Because my mom's job requires constant travel, we have to move around a lot.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To go from one place to another, often for work or pleasure
189
2.5
Move around without a fixed place, often while looking for something
49
2.1
Move from place to place within an area
9
2.8
To move around a house or area
7
1.4
To move around quickly and energetically without a clear purpose
To travel from place to place as part of your work
Antonyms
How Much
189
2.5
21
3.7
184
1.9
46
1.8
∞
1.0
42
2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'pass to the other side of an object by changing direction' is directly built from 'move' (change position) + 'around' (to go on the other side/around something). This verb + particle motion pattern is compositional and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Move around comes from the image of a person going from town to town for work, literally to move from place to place and go around different towns. So it means 'to travel from place to place'.