look round

English

look round (third-person singular simple present looks round, present participle looking round, simple past and past participle looked round)

To inspect a building or area.
We're interested in buying this house, can we look round tomorrow?
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
To search a place.
I can't find my keys, so I'll look round.
(intransitive) To turn one's head to see what is behind oneself.
He heard a voice and looked round to see a man wearing dark clothes.

look round — see look around