wheel around vs rotate

wheel around and rotate both are verbs.

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

As verbs, rotate is a hypernym of wheel around; that is, rotate is a word with a broader meaning than wheel around:

Other hypernyms of wheel around include go around, revolve.

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