Usually means: Achieve nothing, waste time repeatedly.
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  1. run around in circles: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. run around in circles: Wiktionary

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  1. run around in circles: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (Run around in circles)

verb:  Alternative form of go round in circles [(idiomatic) To repeatedly do the same thing without making any progress.]

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