gather around (?.)

• assemble
• bunch
• bunch up
• clot
• cluster
• collect
• come together
• congregate
• converge
• copulate
• couple
• crowd
• crystallize
• date
• draw up
• fall in
• fall into line
• fall into place
• fall into rank
• flock together
• flow together
• forgather
• form
• fuse
• gang around
• gang up
• gather
• herd together
• hive
• horde
• huddle
• league
• link
• mass
• meet
• merge
• mill
• muster
• place itself
• rally
• rally around
• rally round
• range itself
• rendezvous
• seethe
• shape up
• stream
• surge
• swarm
• take form
• take its place
• take order
• take rank
• take shape
• throng
• unite