The phrase "around a quad" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe being in the vicinity of a quadrangle, often found on college campuses or in parks.
Example: "Students often gather around a quad to socialize and study during the warmer months."
Alternatives: "near a courtyard" or "in the vicinity of a quad".
There is a lot of intermediate terrain on the blue slopes around Ajax Express, a quad chair that is new this year, replacing the older one.
Located on the northern edge of the Haas campus, it creates a quad around the Robert G. O'Donnell Courtyard.
Hundreds of students poured into a quad around dorms and began chanting "U.S.A.!!" ROTC people and other guys took a big U.S.A. flag and walked across the quad with it spread out.
Founded as a "community prison," the place was designed around a central quad flanked by a large school on one end and a program building on the other.
Apparently I had been driving a quad bike around in the garden, completely hammered, and had careened into a big barbed-wire fence.
The 32-year-old socialite, who took a break from spinning as a resident club DJ for Amnesia Ibiza's "Foam & Diamonds" party, spent her day on a quad bike around the island.
A quad bike trek around the estate took us over a variety of terrain, through streams and past bemused long-horned Highland cattle.
There are mountains to both climb and race around on quad bikes, as well as tattooists, barbers and a wealth of clothes stores to spend one's ill-gotten dollars in. I wanted to see if I could spend a day in Los Santos and Blaine County, in real time, without pulling out a gun once, without being tempted to waste a pedestrian or blow up a petrol station.
Even rolling over when I was doing a quad stretch, I could feel something sort of sliding in my pelvis and moving around," Tansey said.
