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Run around

verb

Play boisterously. Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, skylark, sport. "The gamboling lambs in the meadows" , "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

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... sold in 1920 the contract was to be null and void. As a matter of fact this company developed and sold about 4500 acres in less than five years. They have long since retired as developers and give their entire time to the care of their immense orchards and the sale of their nuts which annually run around two hundred thousand pounds. ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting - Washington, D. C. October 7 AND 8, 1920 • Various

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... the court had been sent on by mail stage to San Francisco, and after a fortnight of total quiet at Yuma, Loring was conveyed down the Colorado to the Gulf and shipped aboard the coasting steamer for the two weeks run around Old California and up the Pacific to Yerba Buena. The very day they sailed old Turnbull came to join him on the voyage. Not a trace had been discovered of the fugitive, Captain Nevins, and such suspicious characters as Blake had overhauled were ...

— A Wounded Name • Charles King

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... A keen knife had been run around the top and both sides, close to the frame. The painting hung down, its ...

— Ashton-Kirk, Investigator • John T. McIntyre

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... and an actor!" he repeated. "Whew! . . . Well, there! Perhaps maybe we hadn't better talk any more just now. You can have the rest of the day to run around town and sort of get acquainted, if you want to. Then to-morrow mornin' you and I'll come over here together and we'll begin to break you in. I shouldn't wonder," he added, dryly, "if you found it kind of dull at ...

— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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... hide in here, an' you'll have a chance to run around on the grass till you're tired," he said, as, after making certain there was no one in sight to observe his movements, he darted ...

— Aunt Hannah and Seth • James Otis

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