wheel around

English

Alternative forms

wheel round (chiefly British)

Verb

wheel around (third-person singular simple present wheels around, present participle wheeling around, simple past and past participle wheeled around)

(transitive) To transport someone or something to various locations by pushing a wheeled transporter such as a wheelchair, wheelbarrow or trolley.
- 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 690663892; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:
  […] meals consisted of sandwiches and Victory Coffee wheeled round on trolleys by attendants from the canteen.
(intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl around.
- 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Sixty-fifth”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, OCLC 1109979921:
  The pony made a moment’s pause; but, as if it occurred to him that to stop when he was required might be to establish an inconvenient and dangerous precedent, he immediately started off again, rattled at a fast trot to the street corner, wheeled round, came back, and then stopped of his own accord.
- 1908, O. Henry, “Squaring the Circle” in The Voice of the City, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1914, pp. 130-131,
  At the next corner a shrill whistle sounded in Sam’s ear. He wheeled around and saw a black-browed villain scowling at him over peanuts heaped on a steaming machine.
(transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
- 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.
- 1887, Leo Tolstoy, “The Invaders” (1853) in The Invaders and Other Stories, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole, New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co., pp. 29-30,
  As soon as the crossing was effected, the general’s face suddenly took on an expression of deliberation and seriousness; he wheeled his horse around, and at full gallop rode across the wide forest-surrounded field which spread before us.
(intransitive) 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.
- 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.

Synonyms

wheel about

单词	wheel around
释义	wheel around English Alternative forms wheel round (chiefly British) Verb wheel around (third-person singular simple present wheels around, present participle wheeling around, simple past and past participle wheeled around) (transitive) To transport someone or something to various locations by pushing a wheeled transporter such as a wheelchair, wheelbarrow or trolley. 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 690663892; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001: […] meals consisted of sandwiches and Victory Coffee wheeled round on trolleys by attendants from the canteen. (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl around. 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Sixty-fifth”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, OCLC 1109979921: The pony made a moment’s pause; but, as if it occurred to him that to stop when he was required might be to establish an inconvenient and dangerous precedent, he immediately started off again, rattled at a fast trot to the street corner, wheeled round, came back, and then stopped of his own accord. 1908, O. Henry, “Squaring the Circle” in The Voice of the City, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1914, pp. 130-131, At the next corner a shrill whistle sounded in Sam’s ear. He wheeled around and saw a black-browed villain scowling at him over peanuts heaped on a steaming machine. (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn. 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. 1887, Leo Tolstoy, “The Invaders” (1853) in The Invaders and Other Stories, translated by Nathan Haskell Dole, New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co., pp. 29-30, As soon as the crossing was effected, the general’s face suddenly took on an expression of deliberation and seriousness; he wheeled his horse around, and at full gallop rode across the wide forest-surrounded field which spread before us. (intransitive) 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. 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. Synonyms wheel about
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