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What does circumambulate mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To walk around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
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I shall continue in the proper direction, if I have to circumambulate the continent of Africa to reach my destination.
The Memorial teaches the steps to circumambulate the graves of communist repression and guides them along the way of the Just, able to elevate itself to the rank of a school, a museum, a court or even a church.
Worshipers visit Buddhist sanctuaries and circumambulate a stupa or a sacred image, and monks are given food and other gifts.
Instead of foot patrols, saffron-clad monks circumambulate Buddhist temples in the pre-dawn light, armed only with prayer beads.
They will circumambulate the stadium once and then take the torches to the cauldron.
Is this me, around whom children ran, as they would about a pillar or a monument, and thought it exercise to circumambulate?

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