running

See also: Running

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌnɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnɪŋ

Adjective

running (not comparable)

1. Moving or advancing at a run.
   1. Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
2. Present, current.

   running month

3. Flowing; easy; cursive.

   running handwriting

4. Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.

   a running explanation

   • 1778, John Hamilton Moore, A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels:

     Thus a constant running fire was kept up, and no interval allowed for the enemy to stand to their guns in safety […]

   • 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […] , London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , OCLC 946735472:

     a running conquest

   • 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers

     What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?

5. Having a continuous design or pattern.

   running bond; running ornament

6. Consecutive.
7. (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.

   a running vine

8. (medicine) Discharging pus.

   a running sore

9. (medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.

   Synonym: runny

   a running nose

Derived terms

• free-running
• long-running
• smooth-running

Translations

moving by running

• Bengali: ছুটন্ত (chuṭôntô), চলন্ত (côlôntô), চলতি (côlti), ধাবমান (dhabôman)
• Bulgarian: бягащ (bg) (bjagašt), тичащ (bg) (tičašt)
• Finnish: juokseva (fi)

• Galician: corrente (gl)
• Nyunga: baardanginy

present, current

• Bengali: চলতি (côlti)
• Bulgarian: текущ (bg) (tekušt)
• Finnish: kuluva (fi)
• Galician: corrente (gl)

• German: laufend (de)
• Italian: corrente (it), attuale (it)

easy, cursive

• Finnish: sujuva (fi)

continuous, keeping along step by step

• Bulgarian: плавен (bg) (plaven), непрекъснат (bg) (neprekǎsnat)
• Finnish: jatkuva (fi)

botany: extending by slender stem

• Bulgarian: пълзящ (bg) (pǎlzjašt)
• Finnish: kiipeävä (fi)

discharging pus

• Finnish: vuotava (fi)
• German: eiternd (de), nässend (de)

• Irish: silidh, reatha

discharging snot or mucus

• Bulgarian: сълзящ (bg) (sǎlzjašt)
• Finnish: vuotava (fi)

• German: laufend (de)

Adverb

running (not comparable)

1. (informal) Consecutively; in a row.

   Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.

Translations

consecutively

• Bulgarian: последователно (bg) (posledovatelno)
• Finnish: peräkkäin (fi)
• Portuguese: consecutivamente

• Russian: подря́д (ru) (podrjád)
• Spanish: consecutivo (es)

Noun

running (countable and uncountable, plural runnings)

1. The action of the verb to run.

   His running of the business leaves something to be desired.

2. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.

   Running is good exercise.

3. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.

   the first running of a still

4. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.

Derived terms

• free running, freerunning

Translations

the action of the verb to run

• American Sign Language: S@SideChesthigh-PalmAcross-S@SideTrunkhigh-PalmAcross CirclesMidline-CirclesMidline
• Arabic: رَكْض‎ (ar) m (rakḍ)
• Belarusian: бег m (bjeh), бе́ганне n (bjéhannje)
• Bulgarian: бяг (bg) m (bjag), бя́гане (bg) n (bjágane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跑 (zh) (pǎo)

• Czech: běh (cs) m
• Dutch: lopen (nl) n
• Finnish: juoksu (fi), juokseminen (fi)
• French: course (fr) f, course à pied (fr) f
• German: Rennen (de) n, Laufen (de) n
• Hungarian: futás (hu)
• Japanese: 走る (ja) (はしる, hashiru), 走り (はしり, hashiri), ランニング (ja) (ranningu)
• Korean: 달리기 (ko) (dalligi)
• Macedonian: трчање n (trčanje)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: løping (no) m or f

• Polish: bieg (pl) m, bieganie (pl) n
• Portuguese: correr (pt)
• Russian: бег (ru) m (beg), беготня́ (ru) f (begotnjá) (scurry, running about), бе́гание (ru) n (béganije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трчање n

  Roman: trčanje (sh) n

• Slovak: beh m, behanie n
• Slovene: tek (sl) m
• Spanish: administración (es) f, control (es) m, dirección (es) f, manejo (es) m, organización (es) f,
• Swedish: löpning (sv) c
• Telugu: పరుగెత్తుట (te) (parugettuṭa)
• Ukrainian: біг (uk) m (bih), бі́гання (uk) n (bíhannja)
• Volapük: vifagol (vo), gol vifik

sport

• Belarusian: бег m (bjeh)
• Bulgarian: бягане (bg) n (bjagane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賽跑 (zh), 赛跑 (zh) (sàipǎo)

• Finnish: juoksu (fi)
• German: Laufsport m, Laufen (de) n
• Hungarian: futás (hu)

• Italian: corsa (it) f
• Portuguese: correr (pt)
• Russian: бег (ru) m (beg)
• Spanish: footing (es) m, jogging (es) m
• Ukrainian: біг (uk) m (bih)

quantity of liquid which flows in a certain time

• Bulgarian: дебит (bg) m (debit)
• Finnish: juoksutus (fi) (regulated); valuma, virtaama (nonregulated)

discharge from a sore

• Bulgarian: сълзене n (sǎlzene)
• Finnish: vuoto (fi)

Verb

running

1. present participle of run

Preposition

running

1. (colloquial) Approaching; about; roughly.

Derived terms

Terms derived from running (all parts of speech)

• bungee running
• drug running
• free running
• front running
• hand running
• hit the ground running
• hitting and running
• in running order
• in the running
• off and running
• out of the running
• rat running
• retro running
• running costs
• running dictation
• running line
• running powers
• running rail
• running shed
• running sore
• running track
• running water
• up and running

 

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Spanish

Noun

running m (uncountable)

1. running, jogging