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I believe the answer is:

fiddling

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'playing' is the definition.
(fiddling is a kind of playing)

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(Other definitions for fiddling that I've seen before include "What Nero was doing while Rome burned" , "petty" , "trivial" , "wasting time?" , "Tinkering - trifling" .)

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