fiddling russian

• возня́

  fuss, bother, hassle, trouble

  scuffling, romping, noise, racket

  tinkering, fiddling, messing about

  intrigues, machinations, petty scheming

• ковыря́ющийся

  picking, fiddling, tinkering, poking around

• мухлю́ющий

  cheating, swindling, fiddling

• ковыря́вший

  picking, poking, prodding

  fiddling with, tinkering with, messing with, digging (lightly)

• пили́кавший

  scraping (on a violin), fiddling badly, sawing away

  squeaking, whining, beeping

• ковыря́вшийся

  picking (at), poking, prodding, delving

  fiddling around, messing about, puttering, dawdling

Examples

• Он сидел и поигрывал ключами в руке.

  He sat there, idly fiddling with the keys in his hand.

• Мне пришлось повозиться с этим замком полчаса.

  I had to spend half an hour fiddling with this lock.

• Ковырявшийся в замке слесарь наконец открыл дверь.

  The locksmith fiddling with the lock finally opened the door.