run around
UK also run about, run round— phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run
C2 to be very busy doing a lot of different things:
I'm exhausted - I've been running around all morning.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Busy and active
- a hive of activity/industry idiom
- arena
- be (as) busy as a bee idiom
- be all go idiom
- be at work idiom
- be back in harness idiom
- buzz
- foot
- girlie swot
- hard-working
- harness
- have (got) sth on
- have sth on your plate idiom
- hurly-burly
- knee-deep
- mad
- spread
- stimulating
- tie sb up
- well away idiom
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