Verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, about.
(idiomatic, intransitive) To be very busy doing many different things.
I've been running about all week getting everything ready for the holidays.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. Oscar Wilde
Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it. Stephen Fry
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. Galen Rowell
Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world. David Wilkerson
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. Nancy Mitford
We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine. Robert Burns