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Denote by \(P_n\mathbb{C}\) and \(H_n\mathbb{C}\) the \(n\)-dimensional complex projective and hyperbolic space, respectively. A real hypersurface of \(P_n \mathbb{C}\) resp. \(H_n \mathbb{C}\) is called of type \((\text{A}_0)\) if it is a horosphere in \(H_n \mathbb{C}\); of type \((\text{A}_1)\) if it is a geodesic hypersphere in \(P_n \mathbb{C}\) or \(H_n \mathbb{C}\) or a tube around a totally geodesic \(H_{n-1} \mathbb{C}\) in \(H_n \mathbb{C}\); of type \((\text{A}_2)\) if it is a tube around a totally geodesic \(P_k \mathbb{C}\) resp. \(H_k \mathbb{C}\) for some \(1\leq k\leq n-2\); and of type (B) if it is a tube around a totally geodesic \(P_n \mathbb{R}\) resp. \(H_n \mathbb{R}\). All these hypersurfaces have two or three distinct constant principal curvatures. Any geodesic in the hypersurface with initial value equal to a principal curvature vector is a circle in the ambient space. The authors study the converse question. Assume at each point of a real hypersurface \(M\) of \(P_n \mathbb{C}\) resp. \(H_n \mathbb{C}\) one can find an orthonormal basis such that the geodesics in \(M\) tangent to these vectors are circles in the ambient space. Under certain additional assumptions, the authors derive characterizations of hypersurfaces of type (A) and (B).