runner

1. someone who imports or exports without paying duties

2. someone who travels on foot by running

Definition categories: person, traveler, traveller

3. a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents

- he sent a runner over with the contract

Definition categories: person, courier, messenger

4. a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

Definition categories: person, ballplayer

5. a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

Similar word(s): offset, stolon

Definition categories: plant

6. a trained athlete who competes in foot races

Definition categories: person, athlete, jock

7. (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

Definition categories: person, footballer

8. a long narrow carpet

Definition categories: man–made, carpet, carpeting, rug

9. device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

Definition categories: man–made, device

10. fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

Definition categories: animal, jack

- The first runner to cross the finish line wins the race.

- The car salesman told me that the used Volvo was a nice little runner.

- He did a runner after robbing the drugstore.

- After the cycle completes, the runner travels back quickly to be in place for the next cycle.

- The red runner makes the table so festive.

- How about we put down a clear runner in the front hall.

- The runner was out at second.

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