wheel around

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wheel around

verb wheels around · wheeling around · wheeled around · wheel round

  1. transitive To transport someone or something to various locations by pushing a wheeled transporter such as a wheelchair or wheelbarrow. […] meals consisted of sandwiches and Victory Coffee wheeled round on trolleys by attendants from the canteen.
  2. figuratively, intransitive To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl around. The pony made a moment’s pause; but, as if it occurred to him that to stop when he was required might be to establish an inconvenient and dangerous precedent, he immediately started off again, rattled at a fast trot to the street corner, wheeled round, came back, and then stopped of his own accord.

    Similar: wheel about

  3. figuratively, transitive To cause to change direction quickly, turn. 1834, “Burnes’s Travels into Bokhara” in The Quarterly Review, London: John Murray, Volume 52, August and November, 1834, p. 387, The river of Cabool was crossed on a raft supported on inflated skins […] Its rapidity, formed into eddies, wheeled them round, and they had the agreeable satisfaction of
  4. intransitive In dancing, when a couple, holding hands, turns around 180 degrees, with the left hand dancer moving backward and the right hand dancer moving forward. 1950, Lee Owens and Viola Ruth, Advanced Square Dance Figures of the West and Southwest, Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, “The Do-Si-Do Shuffle,” p. 108, When in Opposites’ positions, the two Head Couples dance a Right and Left Through to their home place where they wheel around to face the center.

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@misc{wheel_around_2026,
  title = {wheel around},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wheel%20around},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}