To look around is to walk through a place seeing what is there. No particular aim, and no hurry.
Shops, galleries and houses for sale are the usual places, and asking whether you may look around is a polite way of saying you are not buying yet. There is a second sense meaning to search for something, so looking around for a new job means beginning to consider it. British English also writes look round. Browse and explore do much the same in their own settings.
1phraselook aroundTo walk through a place to see what is there.
“Do feel free to look around before you decide.”
2phrasesearchTo search for something available.
“He began to look around for something better paid.”
Also accepted in games: browse, explore
Practised in Phrasal Verbs, A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 1 of A Man Called Ove.
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