An empirical test of the suitability or effectiveness of a method or thing by running it at least once.

increased traffic due to the number of parents taking or collecting their children to and from school by car. / a car trip to and from the school to transport a student.

A running play in American football in which the player carrying the ball attempts to avoid being tackled by evading the defending players from the opposing team

(politics) A candidate on a joint ticket. / (politics) A candidate for the US vice-presidency. / One of a pair of ships with coordinated, often reciprocal, sailing schedules.

(skiing) A trail or slope used for skiing

Water available from taps. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see running, water.

The activity of combining parkour with gymnastics to pass obstacles and demonstrate athletic talent, most often in urban environments.

(preceded by definite article) A dance move popular in the late 1980s to early 1990s, characterized by running movements done in place with hands going in an alternating forward-backward motion.

plural of running knot

Coming as fast as one can, often in a harried state.