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Walk around   /wɔk ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
Walk around

verb
1.
Walk with no particular goal.  Synonyms: perambulate, walk about.  "After breakfast, she walked about in the park"
2.
Walk around something.  Synonym: circumambulate.
3.
Behave in a certain manner or have certain properties.  "She walks around with this strange boyfriend"
4.
Walk randomly.






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"Walk around" Quotes from Famous Books



... soon had a good fire going. I caught Old Blacky, who had started off to walk around the lake, woke up Old Browny, who was sleeping peacefully with his nose resting on the ground, quieted the pony, who was still suspicious, with a few pats on the neck, and gave them all their oats. Soon the rest of us also had ...
— The Voyage of the Rattletrap • Hayden Carruth

... hunter went on to the edge of Paddy's pond and then began to walk around it, studying the ground as he walked. Presently he found the footprints of Lightfoot in the mud where Light foot had gone down to the ...
— The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer • Thornton W. Burgess

... rope from his arm and feebly motioned to them that they were to walk around the pole with their end so they might hoist the iron ring to the ...
— The Circus Boys Across The Continent • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... and sitting down, leaned against the tree. The rain came down in sheets. The wind blew, and the old pine trees clashed their limbs together. It seemed to me that a second deluge had come. I would get so cold that I would get up and walk around for a while. It seemed to me I should surely freeze. Toward morning I began to get numb, and felt more comfortable, but that was the longest and ...
— History of the Donner Party • C.F. McGlashan

... done.' Of course I couldn't tell what might happen, but there was only one way it could be done, and that was for me to get into the boat that was tied to the post down by the water, and take it to her, for it was too far for me to walk around by the head of the bay. Now, the trouble was, I didn't know no more about a boat and the managin' of it than any one of you sailormen knows about clear starchin'. But there wasn't no use of thinkin' what I knew and what I didn't know, for ...
— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton


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