A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.

A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

a district in which a Methodist minister or lay preacher operates

the geographical area covered by a federal court of appeal.

an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to; "she's a familiar name on the club circuit"; "on the lecture circuit"; "the judge makes a circuit of the courts in his district"; "the international tennis circuit"

(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals

an appealate judicial district among the courts of many nations

an appellate judicial district among the courts of manynations

the regional unit of federal judicial appeals. Congress has divided the federal judicial system into twelve regional circuits (the eleven numbered circuits and the District of Columbia Circuit). In each circuit is a court of appeals to hear appeals from district courts in the circuit, and a circuit judicial council to oversee the administration of the courts of the circuit.

Judicial division of the United States or of an individual state.

A group of local Methodist churches