What is "doodling"

Usage examples of "doodling".

Ben said, doodling a picture of a gun pointed at the head of a man in a suit.

If there had been any priests like Tom McCoy around when she was growing up, she might have actually paid attention in church instead of spending all her time doodling on the back of the missa ette.

He turned through the pages of doodling and games of hangman, his pride at being made co-captain of his hockey team, his sadness at the trouble between his parents.

Daphne dips her finger in slopped coffee and starts doodling on the table, describing circles.

He looked down and started doodling what Gail recognized as a critical path analysis on a scrap of paper.

Quickly, and with an admirable economy of strokes, he was doodling a caricature of Bartram on the back of his menu card.

He and Mingus Rude too and even Arthur Lomb for that matter are released from the paint-by-numbers page of their schooldays, from their preformatted roles as truant or victim, freed to an unspoiled summer, that inviting medium for doodling in self-transformation.

It was a squat, sturdy building with three stories, high Gothic arches, wide glass windows, and hundreds of wooden rococo doodlings in every spare inch.