From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfart about/around phrasal verb informalLAZYto waste time not doing very muchStop farting around and get on with your work! → fart→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
fart about/around• Amid much ritual and farting about, the doc and the daft ravers pronounced rock dead.• I've farted around too much, that's the triste truth. 