run around, runaround

Run around or run around ( two words ) means to go by moving the legs quickly ( run ) in a circle, or on a course to avoid an object or person, by making a part of a circle past it ( around ) --
Can you run around the track three times?
Run around the tree and come back.
Run around may also mean to go here and there --
Tell the kids to go out and run around; they've been in the house all day.
Run around may also mean to philander --
She won't run around after she's married, she says.

Runaround or runaround ( one word, sometimes spelled run-around ) means an evasive response to a question or request --
I asked about a raise, but I just got a runaround.
If you ask what he's been doing, he gives you the runaround.

Now that you know that, you can say --
"She asked if he had run around when he was younger, but she got nothing but a runaround."