rotate vs wheel around

rotate and wheel around both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rotate	No	No	Yes	No
wheel around	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, wheel around is a hyponym of rotate; that is, wheel around is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than rotate:

Other hyponyms of rotate include drive in, screw, screw, wheel, gyrate, reel, spin, spin around, whirl, swirl, twiddle, twirl, whirl.

rotate (verb)	wheel around (verb)
plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession	change directions as if revolving on a pivot
perform a job or duty on a rotating basis	wheel somebody or something
cause to turn on an axis or center
turn on or around an axis or a center
turn outward
exchange on a regular basis