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running start

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running start
n.
See flying start.
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Noun1.running startrunning start - a racing start in which the contestants are already in full motion when they pass the starting line
flying start
racing start - the start of a race
2.running start - a quick and auspicious beginning
flying start
start - the beginning of anything; "it was off to a good start"


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Taking a running start, his nimble legs carried him easily over and balanced neatly upon the end of the broad log.
Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker View in context
Going back twenty paces, he took a running start, and at the edge of the well, leaped upward and outward in an attempt to gain the opposite side.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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