Dic: run around

1. to run here and there.

• Why are you running around? Sit down and be quiet.
• Please stop running around. You are making me nervous.

2. to go here and there having meetings or doing errands.

• I've been running around all day, shopping for the party tonight.
• I am so tired of running around, carting children to various places.

... McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs,

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/run+around

PHRASAL VERB

If you run around, you go to a lot of places and do a lot of things, often in a rushed or disorganized way.

• No one noticed we had been running around emptying bins and cleaning up.
• I spend all day running around after the family.

... Cobuild