Whenever you're talking about going 'around' something you are ALWAYS talking about going in a 'circular way'.

Ohhhh,are you thinking that, on a globe for example, a person has started in say Chicago, and flown basically due-North (through Canada etc) all the way 'around' the world in that way ending up back in Chicago? Basically going purely North until they approach for their final arrival from the South? If so, no one has EVER claimed to have flown, boated, or swam 'around' the earth in that manner. Interestingly it is IMPOSSIBLE to naviagate the globe in that way. No one has EVER done it, or EVER claimed to have done it. And that's what's the globe people say, not the flat earthers.