wheel around

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Verb	1.	wheel around - wheel somebody or something wheel transport - move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
	2.	wheel around - change directions as if revolving on a pivot; "They wheeled their horses around and left" wheel revolve, rotate, go around - turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire" cartwheel - do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet

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The musketeers, few in number, not being able, in the midst of this crowd, to make their horses wheel around, began to give way.

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The gin menu is split into categories - juniper, citrus, floral, Old Tom and so on - and each category begins with a flavour wheel around which the gins are placed, giving a clear idea of what it will taste like.

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"The curling rink has been completely transformed with special lighting, a sound system playing some disco classics and of course, the disco ball that will give everyone some glitter as they wheel around the rink.

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I know a lot of 14-year-olds who think a baby is a lifestyle accessory to dress up in nice outfits and wheel around in a fancy buggy.

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When David had finished racing, I knew he would not celebrate until he had flicked his wheel around the bend.

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Colonel Jamal Al Bannai, Acting Director of Dubai Traffic Police, said hoverboard users can only wheel around in designated areas.

Roads, pavements, some malls off limits to hoverboarders

The deluded candidates still wheel around egos bigger than their suitcases, while Nick Hewer, with his scene-stealing eyebrows and cat's bum mouth, keeps their business babble in check.

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But Dave Nijjar, one of the partners who have been running the pub since September, said they felt "victimised" by the brewery and that they had been slowly but surely turning the fortunes of The Wheel around.

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Elsa's girl, isn't it?' There is a man behind one of the upside-down boats, its hull white and smooth like the underbellies of the gulls that wheel around in the sky above them.

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Wheelathon at Bahrain International Circuit -- families are invited to wheel around the famous grand prix circuit on Friday, October 28.

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Scheduled to launch later this year for an August 2012 landing, Curiosity and its payload of instruments will wheel around examining rocks, snapping photos and eating dust.

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We had a series of black tomcats, one of which I used to dress up like a baby and wheel around in a pram.

We had black tomcats, one of which I used to dress up like a baby and wheel around in a pram; NOW AND THEN LINDA CONLON is chief executive at the International Centre for Life in Newcastle, having co-founded it 11 years ago. The 55-year-old lives at Ponteland with husband Robert and daughter Elizabeth, 25. She loves cooking and visiting her holiday home in Italy

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