| 绕过 | rào guò | to detour / to bypass / to circumvent / to avoid / to wind around (of a road etc) |  |
| 弯路 | wān lù | winding road / roundabout route / detour / (fig.) wrong way (of doing sth) |  |
| 绕道 | rào dào | to go by a roundabout route / to take a detour / (medicine or civil engineering) bypass | |
| 绕行 | rào xíng | to take a circular (or circuitous) route / to do a circuit / (of a planet) to orbit / (of a sailor) to circumnavigate / to take a detour / to bypass | |
| 转道 | zhuǎn dào | to make a detour / to go by way of | |
| 绕路 | rào lù | to make a detour / to take the long route | |
| 绕圈子 | rào quān zi | to go around in circles / to make a detour / (fig.) to beat about the bush | |
| 绕弯子 | rào wān zi | lit. to go on a long detour / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush | |
| 绕 |  rào | variant of 繞|绕[rao4], to rotate around / to spiral / to move around / to go round (an obstacle) / to by-pass / to make a detour | |
| 遶 | rào | variant of 繞|绕, to rotate around / to spiral / to move around / to go round (an obstacle) / to by-pass / to make a detour | |
| 绕弯子儿 | rào wān zǐ r | lit. to go on a long detour / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush | |
