flail about

or flail around

To engage in rapid, frantic, undirected movements or activity: The baby cried and flailed about as we looked for the bottle. After I caught the fish, it flailed around in the bottom of the boat.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Alda (2)	AHL-dah	Limburgish
Themistocles	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Wob	VAWP (Dutch), WAWP (Dutch)	Frisian, Dutch
Torstein	-	Norwegian
Pinja	PEEN-yah	Finnish
Dragoslava	-	Serbian, Medieval Slavic