Verb
ring around (third-person singular simple present rings around, present participle ringing around, simple past rang around, past participle rung around)
To call a number of people by phone, usually a circle of friends, to organise something.
I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced. Wynton Marsalis
One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues. Jeff Bridges
I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me. Muddy Waters