Doodling [verb]

When the city began to reopen, he contacted her owner to see whether he and his own dog, a golden doodle, could spend some time with her.

He drew a pencil and pad toward him and began doodling in a bored manner, deliberately closing his mind to what she was saying.

When he got back to Tortha Karf's office, the Chief was awake, and doodling on his notepad with his multicolor pen.

Vall looked at the pad and winced; the Chief was doodling bugs again—red ants with black legs, and blue-and-green beetles.

You with your absurd doodling, which attracted the attention of some Being of the fourth dimension!

For a while there was only the whining of the machines and the crazy doodling of the graph.

Yes, I believe so, though it was only absent-minded doodling.

Perry looked at the table, doodling in the puddles of beer with a fingertip.

Handy Sam, with one foot up on the table and a pencil between his toes, was doodling self-consciously on a paper napkin.

Yet they go cock-a-doodling about that wretched cup as if each of them separately had been champion.