[Idiom] When 2 people "circle each other"

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What is meant by the idiomatic expression of two people "circling each other"?
 
See the boxers below? They're not going toward each other. They're not moving away. They're moving around, facing each other, gloves up, looking for an opening.

They're circling each other.

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