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around
To be positioned around a place or object means to surround it or be on all sides of it. To move around a place means to go along its edge, back to your starting point. -
roundabout
circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person. -
circuity
(of speech, reasoning, etc) a roundabout or devious quality -
detour
If you make a detour on a journey, you go by a route which is not the shortest way, because you want to avoid something such as a traffic jam, or because there is something you want to do on the way. -
meander
to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley.