The phrase "around the remote" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to something that is in the vicinity of or surrounding a remote control device.
Example: "The kids were playing around the remote, making it difficult to find it when I needed to change the channel."
Alternatives: "near the remote" or "in the vicinity of the remote".
The early morning Turkish attack, in and around the remote village of Zahku, killed no one and damaged little.
He persuades her to take a short walk around the remote borders of their ranch, the closest thing they've found to a compromise.
Snaking around the remote village on three sides, the treacherous waters allowed Burmese soldiers to corner and hold people on the river's sandy banks.
Sure, bankers, CEOs, minor royalty, authors and celebrities – Charlize Theron, Paulo Coelho – are all wandering around the remote Alpine aerie in a self-congratulatory fugue state, chatting smugly about Big Ideas.
A play about faith and art, it tells the story of an itinerant healer who makes his way around the remote fringes of the British isles offering redemption to the sick and suffering.
The tool she uses to do this is an otoscope (which cost from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars) plus her time and the cost of driving, flying or (in some cases) boating around the remote communities.
After playing around with the remote control, we determined that the transmitter sends signals by shorting specific pins to ground.
We come home from work, having been typing and mousing, straining our neck and back and keyboarding muscles, only to collapse on the couch to click around on the remote.
You can drive it around with the remote control from the RC car.
Despite the last known thylacine dying in captivity in 1933, people really want to believe there are still rogue Tasmanian Tigers roaming around in the remote outback.
Despite the last known thylacine dying in captivity in 1933, people really want to believe there are still rogue Tasmanian Tigers roaming around in the remote outback.
