| run | (noun) the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace | Synonyms: running |
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| (noun) a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely | Synonyms: tally |
| (noun) (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team | Synonyms: running, running game, running play |
| (noun) a regular trip | - |
| (noun) a short trip | - |
| (noun) the act of testing something | Synonyms: test, trial |
| (noun) an unbroken chronological sequence | - |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: discharge, outpouring |
| (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ladder, ravel |
| (noun) a race run on foot | Synonyms: foot race, footrace |
| (noun) a race between candidates for elective office | Synonyms: campaign, political campaign |
| (noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: streak |
| (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, runnel, streamlet |
| (noun) the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.) | - |
| (noun) unrestricted freedom to use | - |
| (noun) the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation | - |
| runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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| runaway | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, shoo-in, walkaway |
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| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, fugitive |
| runch | (noun) Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits | Synonyms: jointed charlock, Raphanus raphanistrum, wild radish, wild rape |
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| rundle | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rung, spoke |
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| rundown | (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: summation, summing up |
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| rune | (noun) any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: runic letter |
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| rung | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rundle, spoke |
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| (noun) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair | Synonyms: round, stave |
| runnel | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, streamlet |
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| runner | (noun) fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil | Synonyms: blue runner, Caranx crysos |
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| (noun) device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along | - |
| (noun) a long narrow carpet | - |
| (noun) a trained athlete who competes in foot races | - |
| (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, smuggler |
| (noun) a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) | Synonyms: base runner |
| (noun) someone who travels on foot by running | - |
| (noun) a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents | - |
| (noun) (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play | Synonyms: ball carrier |
| (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: offset, stolon |
| runniness | (noun) the property of flowing easily | Synonyms: fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, liquidness |
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| running | (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track | Synonyms: track |
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| (noun) the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace | Synonyms: run |
| (noun) the act of administering or being in charge of something | - |
| (noun) (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team | Synonyms: run, running game, running play |
| (noun) the state of being in operation | - |
| runoff | (noun) a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner | - |
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| (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, overspill |
| runt | (noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, peewee, shrimp |
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| runtiness | (noun) smallness of stature | Synonyms: puniness, stuntedness |
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| runup | (noun) a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time | Synonyms: run-up |
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| runway | (noun) a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land | - |
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| (noun) a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc. | - |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, track |
| (noun) a chute down which logs can slide | - |