take turns

English

Verb

take turns (third-person singular simple present takes turns, present participle taking turns, simple past took turns, past participle taken turns)

1. (intransitive, polite) Of two or more people, to do the same thing one after another, taking one another's place alternately.

   We take turns to answer the phone.

   • Round-robin scheduling arranges to have all teams or players take turns playing each other

Synonyms

• alternate (for two people)
• take it in turns

Translations

do the same thing one after another

• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏁᏟᏴᏍᏗᎭ (adanetliyvsdiha)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輪班／轮班 (zh) (lúnbān), 輪換／轮换 (zh) (lúnhuàn), 交替 (zh) (jiāotì), 倒替 (zh) (dǎotì)

• Danish: skiftes ad
• Finnish: vuorotella (fi)
• French: se relayer, faire quelque chose à tour de rôle
• German: sich abwechseln
• Italian: avvicendarsi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rullere (no)

• Polish: robić na zmianę impf
• Portuguese: revezar (pt)
• Russian: сменяться (ru) (smenjatʹsja), чередоваться (ru) (čeredovatʹsja)
• Spanish: turnarse (es), alternarse, rotarse
• Swedish: turas om (sv)
• Ukrainian: чергува́тися impf (čerhuvátysja)

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