run around with
phrasal verb
ran around with; run around with; running around with; runs around with
informal + disapproving
: to spend a lot of time with (someone)
He runs around with younger women.
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Kids ran around with new toys, and families looked relieved to be outside in the sun, but there weren’t many people out and about.
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Araceli Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2025
One scene, shows another donkey picking up a small goat and running around with it in their mouth, before being told off.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Some in the private aircraft industry are running around with their hair on fire lamenting how Trump’s 25 percent tariff proposal will spell the end of the U.S. aerospace industry.
—Brian Foley, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Still, having somebody in a character mask run around with a big knife is damn lazy as far as pop-culture subversions go.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 23 Dec. 2024
That was crazy, running around with this rapper and a really small crew.
—Marley Marius, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2024
That has created odd races where the first 80 percent or so of the race requires running around with the gas pedal only half-pushed, which means a slow-looking pack of cars moving around.
—Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
Keep the kids occupied with a D.I.Y. paper-lobster kit ($25), hypnotically beautiful and made from iridescent paper, while littler ones can run around with a pull-along wooden lobster (about $29), ingeniously constructed so the claws click-click-click (playfully?
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
Just this morning, a guy [was] running around with his dog not on a lead and a [man] tripped over and banged his head.
—Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Araceli Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2025
One scene, shows another donkey picking up a small goat and running around with it in their mouth, before being told off.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Some in the private aircraft industry are running around with their hair on fire lamenting how Trump’s 25 percent tariff proposal will spell the end of the U.S. aerospace industry.
—Brian Foley, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Still, having somebody in a character mask run around with a big knife is damn lazy as far as pop-culture subversions go.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 23 Dec. 2024
That was crazy, running around with this rapper and a really small crew.
—Marley Marius, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2024
That has created odd races where the first 80 percent or so of the race requires running around with the gas pedal only half-pushed, which means a slow-looking pack of cars moving around.
—Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
Keep the kids occupied with a D.I.Y. paper-lobster kit ($25), hypnotically beautiful and made from iridescent paper, while littler ones can run around with a pull-along wooden lobster (about $29), ingeniously constructed so the claws click-click-click (playfully?
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
Just this morning, a guy [was] running around with his dog not on a lead and a [man] tripped over and banged his head.
—Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2024
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