This riddle asks: What gets passed around but never moves by itself?
A common answer is: a rumor.
A rumor can spread from person to person as people repeat it, but it has no physical body and cannot move on its own.
The phrase “passed around” usually makes you think of an object being handed from one person to another. In this riddle, however, the thing being passed is information.
That change in meaning is the trick. The rumor travels only because people carry it from one conversation to the next.
