mill around
mill about

Tom needed to work this out on his own, People were milling about.

The rest milled about, beginning to find other ways to go.

Residents were milling about in the cold last night, waiting to be let back into their homes.

It was just too hard to sleep with all of these people milling about.

That was where all of the guards were milling about.

At one point there is a minute and 43 seconds of milling about.

People were milling about, ready to board and getting anxious.

But what if the guard was still milling about in the streets above?

Looking through the door, I saw a few soldiers milling about.

He would only walk when visitors had gone home and the house staff wasn't milling about.