in the round

Prepositional phrase

(sculpture) Not attached to a background. / (theater) Having a stage completely surrounded by an audience. / (knitting) Done with circular needles, so as to create tubes of fabric.

Japanese Meaning

(彫刻) 背景に取り付けられていない、完全に独立した立体彫刻のこと。 / (演劇) 客席に全方向から囲まれたステージ形式。 / (編み物) 円形針を用いて、筒状の布地を作る編み方。

What is this buttons?

The sculptor presented the figure in the round so viewers could walk around it and appreciate every detail.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彫刻家はその像を背景に接していない立体作品として展示し、観客が周囲を歩いて細部を鑑賞できるようにした。

Details

Sense（1）

(sculpture) Not attached to a background.

Not so the sculpture in the round: it stands in ordinary space with the other bodies, a body like them. We must hold fast to this outcome; it will allow us to explain the true essence of sculpture, the designation we confer on sculpture in the round alone. Painting and relief create their own space.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Details

Sense（2）

(theater) Having a stage completely surrounded by an audience.

There is another sense in which we can say that theatre begins in the round. Teachers in schools frequently observe that the dramatic play of children and their early attempts at theatre frequently take a natural in-the-round shape.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation