Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet. • Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip. • A pleasure trip. • Flight, instance or period of fleeing. • Migration of fish. • A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning. • A literal or figurative path or course for movement relating to: • A (regular) trip or route. • The route taken while running or skiing. • A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding. • The distance sailed by a ship. • A voyage. • A trial. • The execution of a program or model • A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play. • Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of. • An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel. • A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder. • State of being current; currency; popularity. • Something continuous or sequential. • A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend. • A series of tries in a game that were successful. • A production quantity (such as in a factory). • The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc. • A period of extended (usually daily) drug use. • A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game. • A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale. • A flow of liquid; a leak. • A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.) • A quick pace, faster than a walk. • A fast gallop. • A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals. • Any sudden large demand for something. • Various horizontal dimensions or surfaces • The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise. • The horizontal length of a set of stairs • Horizontal dimension of a slope. • A standard or unexceptional group or category. • In sports: • A stretch when one team heavily outscores the other. • A basketball game (usually pickup). • A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring. • The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this. • A running play. • The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it. • The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke. • The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling. • A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking. • The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward. • The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes. • A pair or set of millstones. • One’s gait while running; the way one runs.