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метаться vstresses
gen. tear around; rage (AlexandraM); work; baste; flounce; lash (в гневе, возбуждении); beat up and down; dart (q3mi4); flutter; toss about (Andrey Truhachev); toss and turn (Andrey Truhachev); flounder (Liv Bliss); jumble; rampage; scurry; seesaw; thresh; shift (You're going to be shifting oddly between reaching out and shrinking back. VLZ_58); thrash about (из сторны в сторону, в постели и т.п.: The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed. • He thrashed about all night, unable to sleep. • The fish thrashed around on the dock. • Without more detail, we are thrashing about in the dark.); hurry (источник – goo.gl dimock); thrash around (напр., в бреду Borita); beat about; shift around (Abysslooker); be upon one's last legs; launch; lay about; lay about one's self; throw one's self about; throw about; bustle about; toss about (in bed); throw oneself about; flip back and forth (Instead of clear step-by-step instructions, spaghetti code flips back and forth between one task and the next. VPK); jerk; tumble; squib; dartle; tear about; tousle; fling; cast; tack; throw; toss (in bed)
Gruzovik rush about; toss in bed
Игорь Миг do somersaults
dial., agric. form ears
Gruzovik, IT thrash disk drive head
idiom. chop and change (Yeldar Azanbayev)
inf. fly around; zip around (SirReal); rush around (не успевая сделать что-либо lexicographer)
Makarov. barge about; chop about; chop round; thrash about; thresh about; tumble about; thrash; hunt (о стрелке прибора)
slang scramble around (kpkp)
метать v
gen. bring forth; spray out (spawn-икру kutsch); sling; deliver; flip; lance (копьё, дротик); spawn; casting; jerk; launch ho!; shoot; throw (детёнышей); baste; keep; dart (стрелу; также перен.); cast; pitch; catapult; fret; launch; toss; toss up; dartle; ejaculate; fling; stack; tack
Gruzovik throw
agric. cast forth (икру); cast out (икру)
amer. chunk
anim.husb., fish.farm. release
biol. lay (икру)
econ. clog
el. squit
fig. dart (стрелы)
Gruzovik, sew. baste (impf of наметать, прометать, сметать); tack (impf of наметать, прометать, сметать)
inf. fork (They forked the hay into the loft. george serebryakov)
Makarov. deposit (икру); drop (детёнышей); litter (детёнышей); project; stack up (стог); toss (жребий); cast forth; throw on; toss aside; toss away; hurt; shed (икру; о рыбах); stack (стог)
mech.eng., obs. to shoot
obs. dart (копьё, дротик); endart (Shabe); indart (стрелу); jaculate; lanch; parturiate (о животных); squir
slang lob (MichaelBurov)
sport. hurl; put
zool. shed (shed икру; о рыбах)
Игорь Миг, inf. gobble (жадно есть); flash (блевать)
мечется v
gen. is torn (between Tanya Gesse)
 Russian thesaurus
мечась v
gen. деепр. от метаться
метаться: 242 phrases in 39 subjects
Agriculture3
Agronomy1
American usage, not spelling1
Aviation1
Bible2
Biology1
Chess1
Figurative10
Figure of speech4
Fish farming pisciculture2
General94
Historical1
Humorous / Jocular1
Hydrobiology2
Ichthyology2
Idiomatic20
Informal11
Jargon1
Literature1
Makarov41
Military5
Mining1
Missiles1
Nanotechnology1
Nonstandard2
Obsolete / dated1
Oceanography & oceanology1
Oil / petroleum1
Proper and figurative1
Proverb2
Sewing and clothing industry1
Silicate industry3
Slang6
Sports4
Technology1
Thermal Energy6
Vulgar2
Weapons and gunsmithing1
Zootechnics2