phone tag

Translations
телефонные догонки
We've been playing phone tag all day trying to catch up with each other.
Мы весь день играем в телефонные догонки, пытаясь связаться друг с другом.
Definitions
A situation in which two people repeatedly try to contact each other by phone but keep missing each other's calls, resulting in a back-and-forth exchange of missed calls or voicemail messages.
Words
phone

noun
телефон
tag

noun
метка