Go around doing something

You can't go around accusing people like that.

2.ILLNESS

Go around (something)

also go about (something) British English

if an illness is going around, a lot of people get it

He had a bad dose of the flu virus that was going around. There are a lot of nasty bugs going around the school.

3. NEWS/STORY

go around (something)

also go about (something) British English

if news, a story, a joke etc is going around, a lot of people hear it and are talking about it

A rumour was going around that I was having an affair with my boss.

4. go around with somebody/go around together

also go about with somebody British English

to meet someone often and spend a lot of time with them

I used to go around with a bad crowd.

5. enough/plenty to go around

enough for each person

Is there enough ice-cream to go around? There were never enough textbooks to go around.

6. what goes around comes around

used to say that if someone does bad things now, bad things will happen to them in the future

7. go around in your head

if words, sounds etc go around in your head, you keep remembering them for a long time

That stupid song kept going around in my head.

go at something/somebody phrasal verb

1. to attack someone or argue with someone in a noisy way

The two dogs went at each other as soon as I opened the gate.

2. to do something, or start to do something, with a lot of energy

Mary went at the task with great enthusiasm.

go away phrasal verb

1. to leave a place or person

Go away and leave me alone! I went away wondering if I'd said the wrong thing.

2. to travel to a place and spend some time there, for example for a holiday

Are you going away this year?

Go away for

We're going away for the weekend.

Go away to

He's going away to college next year.

Go away on

I'm going away on a business trip next week.

3. if a problem, unpleasant feeling etc goes away, it disappears

Ignoring the crime problem won't make it go away.

go back phrasal verb

1. to return to a place that you have just come from

I think we ought to go back now.

Go back to/into/inside etc

I felt so sick I just wanted to go back to bed.

Go back for

I had to go back for my passport ( =to get my passport).

2. there's no going back

spoken used to say that you cannot make a situation the same as it was before

I realized that once the baby was born there would be no going back.

3. [ always + adverb/preposition] to have been made, built, or started at some time in the past

It's a tradition that goes back at least 100 years.

Go back to

The building goes back to Roman times.

4. if people go back a particular length of time, they have known each other for that length of time

Peter and I go back 25 years. We go back a long way (=we have been friends for a long time).

5. to think about a particular time in the past or something that someone said before

If you go back 20 years, most people didn't own a computer.

Go back to

I'd like to go back to the point that was made earlier.

go back on something phrasal verb

to not do something that you promised or agreed to do

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