What are some opposite words for run around?
Antonyms for run aroundrun around
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term run around.
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run aroundverb
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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?
I don't want to do this just to run around, i have to feel that I have a very good chance to win.
Before he couldn't really participate in being a kid. He couldn't run around and play, and do anything like this at all, it's the best day of his entire life.
I'm disappointed, but I'm not going to run around like Dennis Rodman and head-butt somebody. (after losing the Masters tournament)
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.
The shadow of an exit of Greece from the euro zone takes on ever clearer shape, repeated apparently final attempts to reach a deal are starting to make the whole process look ridiculous. There is an ever greater number of people who feel as if the Greek government is giving them the run-around.
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