Roundabout

Adjective

 * 1) Indirect, circuitous or circumlocutionary.

Noun

 * 1)  A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
 * 2)  A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis when pushed.
 * 3) A fairground carousel.
 * 4) A detour
 * 5) A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.

Synonyms

 * traffic circle

Thesaurus
Byzantine, Ferris wheel, O-shaped, ambages, ambagious, ambient, anfractuous, apparent, backhanded, balled up, bypass, carousel, chubby, chute-the-chutes, chutes, circling, circuit, circuitous, circular, circumambages, circumambient, circumbendibus, circumferential, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacent, circumlocution, circumlocutional, circumlocutory, collateral, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, convolutional, cortical, crabbed, daedal, detour, deviating, deviation, deviative, devious, digression, digressive, discursive, disk, elaborate, embracing, embrangled, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, enfolding, entangled, enveloping, environing, epidermic, evasive, excursion, excursive, exomorphic, exterior, external, extrinsic, flexuose, flexuous, flying horses, fouled up, fringe, helical, implicated, indirect, intricate, involute, involuted, involutional, involved, jaunt, junket, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, long, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meandrous, merry-go-round, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, neighboring, oblique, open, orbital, out, out-of-the-way, outer, outermost, outing, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, peripheral, periphrase, periphrasis, periphrastic, perplexed, pleonasm, plump, podgy, public, pudgy, ramified, redundancy, rivose, rivulose, roller, roller coaster, rolling stone, roly-poly, rotary, rotator, rotor, round, round trip, roundabout way, ruffled, runaround, rundle, sally, screwed up, seeming, seesaw, serpentine, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, snarled, spiral, subtle, suburban, superficial, surface, surrounding, swing, tangled, tangly, tautology, teeter-totter, top, torsional, tortile, tortuous, traffic circle, tubby, turning, twisted, twisting, twisty, verbality, wheel, whip, whirlabout, whirler, whirligig, whorled, winding, wrapping, wreathlike, wreathy

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: kiertelevä


 * Icelandic: óbeinn, vífilengjur, krókóttur, króka-, beinn

Noun

 * Catalan: rotonda
 * Czech:
 * Danish: rundkørsel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:, umferðarhringur


 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: rotatória (Brazilian Portuguese), rotunda (Standard Portuguese)
 * Serbian: krugotok
 * Serbo-Croatian: kružni tok, kružno raskršće
 * Slovene: krožišče,
 * Spanish: glorieta, redoma ,
 * Swedish: rondell


 * Catalan: carrussel, cavallets
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Icelandic: hringekja
 * Polish: karuzela


 * Catalan: carrussel, cavallets
 * Danish: karrusel
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Slovene: vrtiljak
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: omkørsel
 * Finnish:


 * Icelandic: krókaleið, krókvegur
 * Slovene: obvoz