roundabout

Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.

[S]he fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room.

"Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a roundabout way."

Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.

The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.

A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.

A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus.

A fairground carousel.

A detour.

A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.

To play on a roundabout (carousel)

To travel round roundabouts

To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner