run around in circles

“You know why dogs run around in circles? Because it’s too hard to run in squares.”

All he can do now is run around in circles in a closed room that is quickly becoming smaller and smaller.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Republican establishment continues to run around in circles clucking furiously like a brood of barnyard hens, trying to keep Trump and his cultlike following happy.

I’ll reply from my living room in Houston, lying upside down on the sofa, watching my dog run around in circles.

Yet generally, these dancers seem less like kamikaze street warriors than scampering puppies, who like nothing more than to run around in circles and wriggle on their backs.