"bustling about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to move around actively and energetically, or to be busy with various tasks. Example: The busy market was filled with vendors bustling about, setting up their stalls and calling out to potential customers.
They sent people bustling about and colliding in comic commotions.
The Marrakech souk stretches for miles, and all the markets are packed, with people bustling about, carrying flimsy plastic bags full of vegetables, fruit, spices and meat".
Moments after he's seen on the job, gazing intently at shoppers bustling about, Thierry is called from the control room by walkie-talkie to apprehend a suspected shoplifter.
Even before the election, Mr Blair's young men in suits were bustling about, trying to pep up Mr Schröder's glitzy election campaign, and peddling his new centre.All of which might help the left draft a common leftish manifesto, however vague, for next year's elections to the European Parliament.
The resulting disasters, at the Superdome and the Convention Center, were so spectacular that this year officials are bustling about, demonstrating how well prepared they are, particularly for the estimated 30,000 who will not be able to get out on their own, if it comes to that.
A half-dozen women were bustling about, cooking and serving up a feast they had paid for out of their own pockets — roast turkey, rice and peas, giblet gravy, crusty trays of baked macaroni and cheese, collard greens, salad, individual pumpkin pies, scones and too many other things to mention — for, oh, about a hundred hungry people.
I bustled about, ashamed, and Ms. Riceberg sat down.
Black-clad waiters bustle about, taking coats, bringing menus, and generally love-bombing everyone.
She repeatedly calls out to assistants who bustle about: what time is it?
Men in black T-shirts bustle about, moving mysterious tall black cases to the shipping dock out back.
Half-naked, soot-covered men bustled about, as did many young boys.
