a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary
A traffic circle is a circular structure in the road at a place where several roads meet. You drive round it until you come to the road that you want. A circular one-way road at a junction of thoroughfares, facilitating an uninterrupted flow of traffic.Also called regionally rotary. a circular place where two or more roads join, which all traffic must drive around British Equivalent: roundabout