| 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 | - |
| (verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | Synonyms: melt, melt down |
| (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: ladder |
| (verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) change from one state to another | - |
| (verb) become undone | Synonyms: unravel |
| (verb) cause to perform | - |
| (verb) compete in a race | Synonyms: race |
| (verb) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | Synonyms: hunt, hunt down, track down |
| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: campaign |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, operate, work |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, pass |
| (verb) be operating, running or functioning | - |
| (verb) conduct to completion | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: play |
| (verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time | - |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, flow |
| (verb) keep company | Synonyms: consort |
| (verb) sail before the wind | - |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) cover by running; run a certain distance | - |
| (verb) run with the ball; in such sports as football | - |
| (verb) be diffused | Synonyms: bleed |
| (verb) travel a route regularly | Synonyms: ply |
| (verb) cause an animal to move fast | - |
| (verb) move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way | - |
| (verb) travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means | - |
| (verb) deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor | Synonyms: black market |
| (verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: execute |
| (verb) make without a miss | - |
| (verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: operate |
| (verb) set animals loose to graze | - |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, pass |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, tend |
| (verb) be affected by; be subjected to | - |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, prevail |
| (verb) have a particular form | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) extend or continue for a certain period of time | Synonyms: run for |
| (verb) occur persistently | - |
| (verb) change or be different within limits | Synonyms: range |
| (verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: lead |
| runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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| runaway | (adjective) completely out of control | - |
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| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, shoo-in, walkaway |
| (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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| runcinate | (adjective) having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves | - |
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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 |
| runic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of runes | - |
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| 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 | (adjective) of advancing the ball by running | - |
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| (adjective) executed or initiated by running | - |
| (adjective) (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream | - |
| (adjective) continually repeated over a period of time | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, operative, working |
| (adjective) measured lengthwise | Synonyms: linear |
| (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track | Synonyms: track |
| (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 | - |
| runny | (adjective) characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape | Synonyms: fluid |
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| 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 |
| runproof | (adjective) (of hosiery) resistant to runs or (in Britain) ladders | Synonyms: ladder-proof, run-resistant |
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| 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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| runty | (adjective) well below average height | Synonyms: pint-size, pint-sized, sawed-off, sawn-off |
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| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: puny, shrimpy |
| 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 | - |