Get around means to travel from place to place in a city or country, or to find a way of avoiding a problem or rule. In the first meaning it's about how you move about: on foot, by metro, by car. In the second it's about avoiding an obstacle without actually removing it. In British English people often say get round.
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get around + city/country (by bus/on foot); get around + problem/rule; get round (BrE)
- The easiest way to get around Prague is by tram or on foot.
- After the operation, my grandfather needed a stick to get around.
- We couldn't change the software, but we found a way to get around the problem.
What changed
First versionIs it easy to move in the city without a car?
RevisionIs it easy to get around the city without a car?
It's tempting to use move when you ask about travelling around a city. But move usually means 'change where you live' or 'change position', so the question sounds as if it's about relocating. To talk about going from place to place, say get around the city.
With to, the meaning changes. Get around to doing something means finally doing a job you have been putting off: I finally got around to fixing the shelf. Without to, it's about travelling or avoiding an obstacle.
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Taxis are expensive here, so the cheapest way to ___ Lisbon is by tram.
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get around — The sentence is about travelling around Lisbon, so get around. Get along means to have a good relationship (get along with colleagues), and it doesn't go with the name of a city.
Describe how you get around your town. Name a type of transport and one reason you choose it.
I usually get around Kazan by metro because it's faster than a taxi during rush hour.
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