Definition

1. Noun:
   • The usual activities in your day; a habitual or routine series of tasks, duties, or visits performed regularly. It refers to the typical, often repeated sequence of actions that constitute one's regular schedule or professional duties.

Usage and Examples

• Noun:
  • Finishing his daily round of patient visits, the doctor returned to the clinic.
  • Her daily round includes dropping the kids at school, going to work, and grocery shopping.
  • The mail carrier's daily round covers over five hundred houses.

Advanced Usage

• "to do/make one's daily round": to complete one's regular routine or circuit of duties.
  • The security guard makes his daily round of the building every two hours.
• "the daily round and common task": a phrase (often from hymns or literature) referring to ordinary, everyday life and its routine work.
  • She found contentment in the daily round and common task of caring for her family.

Variants and Related Words

• Round (noun): A circuit or fixed route followed regularly, especially for professional duties (e.g., a delivery round, a milk round).
  • The nurse is on her evening round.
• Routine (noun): A sequence of actions regularly followed; a fixed program.
  • My morning routine includes exercise and reading the news.

Synonyms

• Routine: A regular course of procedure.
• Circuit: A regular journey around a particular area.
• Beat: The regular route or area assigned to a police officer or guard.

Related Phrases

• The daily grind: (Idiom) The monotonous routine of daily work.
  • He needed a vacation to escape the daily grind.
• The nine-to-five: (Idiom) Referring to a standard workday routine.
  • She grew tired of the nine-to-five and started her own business.

Noun

1. the usual activities in your day
   • the doctor made his rounds