make the rounds

English

Alternative forms

do the rounds

Verb

make the rounds (third-person singular simple present makes the rounds, present participle making the rounds, simple past and past participle made the rounds)

To circulate from one place to another.
The naked photos of that celebrity have been making the rounds in the tabloids.
(medicine) To go from one place to another for a particular reason.
The doctors at the hospital check on the patients when they make the rounds at nine o'clock.

Translations

to circulate from one place to another

Chinese:
Mandarin: 傳播／传播 (zh) (chuánbō)
Finnish: kiertää (fi)
French: faire le tour (fr)
German: die Runde machen (de)
Maori: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: ir de acá para allá, ir de aquí para allí, ir de la Ceca a la Meca

to go from one place to another

Chinese:
Mandarin: 查房 (zh) (cháfáng) (of doctors), 巡診／巡诊 (zh) (xúnzhěn)
Finnish: kiertää (fi)
French: faire une ronde
Maori: āmikumiku
Spanish: hacer la ronda

Further reading

“make the rounds”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“make the rounds”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
“make the rounds” (US) in Macmillan English Dictionary.

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