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run about

vb. (context idiomatic intransitive English)To be very busy doing many different things.

Usage examples of "run about".

Then the child began to laugh, and, although the mother restrained her, slipped to the ground, with the indomitable energy of a little one that wants to run about.

To be sure it doth me good to hear their men run about after 'um, crying your honour, and your honour.

On the other hand, wages for Doris and Marsha will run about what it would cost for a brace of good mules.

To be the sport of boys, who, when old enough to run about the streets, have no more reverence for what is beautiful and holy, nor pity for what is sad—.

If you would be consul, you must watch, run about, kiss hands, be wearied down with waiting at the doors of others, must say and do many slavish things, send gifts to many, daily presents to some.

Why should he run about here and there making a great noise about himself, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?

How much better to run about in comfortable clothes than to sit at the piano and feel girt under the arms.