can dar una vuelta mean to take a walk

Question

i know that dar la vuelta means to turn around but i have heard that dar una vuelta can mean to take a walk and if that is true can pasear mean the same thing for example: lets take a walk: demos una vuelta / paseemos i walked through the forest: di una vueta por el bosque / paseé por el bosque are bolt of these constructions correct thank you for your help

Answer 1

Dar una vuelta means take a walk.

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dar una vuelta

:) - Kiwi-Girl, May 31, 2014

Answer 2

yes, my spanish text book says it does. I suppose a literal translation would be "to take a turn" (perhaps in the same way that we might say in English that we "take a car out for a spin")