What is "running about"

Usage examples of "running about".

One mention of the kidnapping of Bronwyn's idol's girlfriend and Gus would be off and running about all the missing persons his ridiculously over-worked sheriff's department was supposed to be alert for.

And turning upon the cats that were running about the room, he made several cuts at them.

When there is much running about and the soldiers fall into rank, it means that the critical moment has come.

Below them, on the landing, there was much running about, and shifting of packages and boxes, and shouting of men, whose figures, stooping, heaving, hauling, looked, in the light of the crackling torches kindled in their aid, like the laboring genii of the fantastic Eastern tales.

At his feet some hens were ferreting among the bushes, and picking up the burnished insects that were running about in the sun.

There was much shouting and running about among the men on the bridge and I shouted and milled with the best of them, looking on with pleasure as the next shell whistled cleanly through the gate and blew up the guardhouse inside.

At last, tired of running about, she took a little striped leather ball from the bosom of her frock, and calling to her father, threw it up to him as he stood on the poop.

Why else should he be running about in the caves alone and without equipment?

So I did, to Coypu's lab, where everyone was running about and playing with the machinery and too busy to tell me anything.

It began running about the room in all directions, knocking everything over as it passed.

He promptly put himself at Katerina Ivanovna's disposal and had been all that morning and all the day before running about as fast as his legs could carry him, and very anxious that everyone should be aware of it.