Phrase guide

wheel around

verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

verb

Meaning 1

To transport someone or something to various locations by pushing a wheeled transporter such as a wheelchair or wheelbarrow.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl around.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively, intransitive

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3

verb

Meaning 3

To cause to change direction quickly, turn.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively, transitive

Examples

  • 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 being told that, if carried some way down, there was a whirlpool round which, if once enclosed in its circle, they might revolve, in hunger and giddiness, for a whole day.

Meaning relationships

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4

verb

Meaning 4

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Examples

  • 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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5

verb

Meaning 5

change directions as if revolving on a pivot

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • They wheeled their horses around and left

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: wheel

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: revolve, go around, rotate

Narrower terms: cartwheel

6

verb

Meaning 6

wheel somebody or something

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: wheel

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: transport

History

Etymology

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