"do the rounds" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does the rounds",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing the rounds",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did the rounds",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done the rounds",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "do<does,,did,done> the rounds"
      },
      "expansion": "do the rounds (third-person singular simple present does the rounds, present participle doing the rounds, simple past did the rounds, past participle done the rounds)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "make the rounds"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 30, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “All eyes are on HS2's eastern leg”, in Rail, page 29:",
          "text": "One bit of political speculation doing the rounds just before Christmas was that having lost the battle last year to kill off HS2 in its entirety, frustrated No. 10 advisers are now determined to settle the score by lopping off the eastern arm.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of make the rounds"
      ],
      "id": "en-do_the_rounds-en-verb-NuP3Mcps",
      "links": [
        [
          "make the rounds",
          "make the rounds#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "do the rounds"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does the rounds",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing the rounds",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did the rounds",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done the rounds",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "do<does,,did,done> the rounds"
      },
      "expansion": "do the rounds (third-person singular simple present does the rounds, present participle doing the rounds, simple past did the rounds, past participle done the rounds)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "make the rounds"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 30, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “All eyes are on HS2's eastern leg”, in Rail, page 29:",
          "text": "One bit of political speculation doing the rounds just before Christmas was that having lost the battle last year to kill off HS2 in its entirety, frustrated No. 10 advisers are now determined to settle the score by lopping off the eastern arm.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of make the rounds"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make the rounds",
          "make the rounds#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "do the rounds"
}