run around

run around

vb (intr, adverb)

1. (often foll by with) to associate habitually (with)

2. to behave in a fickle or promiscuous manner

n

3. informal deceitful or evasive treatment of a person (esp in the phrase give or get the run-around)

4. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing an arrangement of printed matter in which the column width is narrowed to accommodate an illustration

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

run around - play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom" frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, skylark, cavort, disport, sport play - be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children; "The kids were playing outside all day"; "I used to play with trucks as a little girl"

run

verb

1. To move swiftly on foot so that both feet leave the ground during each stride:

scamper, scurry, sprint.

2. To move swiftly:

bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt, race, rocket, rush, sail, scoot, scour, shoot, speed, sprint, tear, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom.

Informal: hotfoot, rip.

Slang: barrel, highball.

Chiefly British: nip.

Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step on it.

3. To leave hastily:

bolt, get out.

Informal: clear out, get, hotfoot, skedaddle.

Slang: hightail, scram, vamoose.

Idioms: beat it, hightail it, hotfoot it , make tracks.

4. To move or proceed away from a place.Also used with along:

depart, exit, get away, get off, go, go away, leave, pull out, quit, retire, withdraw.

Informal: cut out, push off, shove off.

Slang: blow, split, take off.

Idioms: hit the road, take leave.

5. To be with as a companion.Also used with around:

associate, consort, fraternize, hang around, hobnob, troop.

Slang: hang out.

Idiom: rub elbows.

6. To look to when in need:

apply, go, refer, repair, resort, turn.

Idioms: fall back on, have recourse to.

7. To complete a race or competition in a specified position:

come in, finish, place.

8. To move freely as a liquid:

circulate, course, flow, stream.

9. To come forth or emit in abundance:

flow, gush, pour, rush, stream, surge, well.

10. To change from a solid to a liquid:

deliquesce, dissolve, flux, fuse, liquefy, melt, thaw.

11. To proceed on a certain course or for a certain distance:

carry, extend, go, lead, reach, stretch.

12. To change or fluctuate within limits:

extend, go, range, vary.

13. To be performed:

play, show.

14. To urge to move along:

drive, herd.

15. To look for and pursue (game) in order to capture or kill it:

chase, drive, hunt, stalk.

16. To perform a function effectively:

function, go, operate, take, work.

17. To set or keep going:

actuate, drive, impel, mobilize, move, propel.

18. To control or direct the functioning of:

manage, operate, use, work.

19. To import or export secretly and illegally:

bootleg, smuggle.

Idiom: run contraband.

20. To separate or pull apart by force:

rend, rip, rive, split, tear.

21. To cause to penetrate with force:

dig, drive, plunge, ram, sink, stab, stick, thrust.

22. To control the course of (an activity):

carry on, conduct, direct, manage, operate, steer.

23. To have charge of (the affairs of others):

administer, administrate, direct, govern, head, manage, superintend, supervise.

phrasal verb
run across

To find or meet by chance:

bump into, chance on (or upon), come across, come on (or upon), find, happen on (or upon), light on (or upon), run into, stumble on (or upon), tumble on.

Archaic: alight on (or upon).

Idiom: meet up with.

phrasal verb
run after

To follow (another) with the intent of overtaking and capturing:

chase, pursue.

Idioms: be in pursuit, give chase.

phrasal verb
run away

To break loose and leave suddenly, as from confinement or from a difficult or threatening situation:

abscond, break out, decamp, escape, flee, fly, get away.

Informal: skip (out).

Slang: lam.

Regional: absquatulate.

Idioms: blow the coop, cut and run, give someone the slip, make a getaway, take flight, take it on the lam.

phrasal verb
run down

1. To lose so much strength and power as to become ineffective or motionless:

burn out, give out.

Slang: poop out.

2. To pursue and locate:

hunt down, nose out, trace, track down.

Idiom: run to earth.

3. To think, represent, or speak of as small or unimportant:

belittle, decry, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, detract, discount, disparage, downgrade, minimize, slight, talk down.

Idiom: make light of.

4. To give a recapitulation of the salient facts of:

abstract, epitomize, go over, recapitulate, review, run through, summarize, sum up, synopsize, wrap up.

Informal: recap.

phrasal verb
run in

1. Slang. To take into custody as a prisoner:

apprehend, arrest, seize.

Informal: nab, pick up.

Slang: bust, collar, pinch.

2. To go to or seek out the company of in order to socialize:

call, come by, come over, drop by, drop in, look in, look up, pop in, see, stop (by or in), visit.

Idiom: pay a visit.

phrasal verb
run into

1. To find or meet by chance:

bump into, chance on (or upon), come across, come on (or upon), find, happen on (or upon), light on (or upon), run across, stumble on (or upon), tumble on.

Archaic: alight on (or upon).

Idiom: meet up with.

2. To come up against:

confront, encounter, face, meet.

3. To come to in number or quantity:

aggregate, amount, number, reach, total.

Idiom: add up to.

phrasal verb
run on

To talk volubly, persistently, and usually inconsequentially:

babble, blabber, chatter, chitchat, clack, jabber, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle (on).

Informal: go on, spiel.

Slang: gab, gas, jaw, yak.

Idioms: run off at the mouth, shoot the breeze.

phrasal verb
run out

1. To make or become no longer active or productive:

deplete, desiccate, dry up, give out, play out.

2. To prove deficient or insufficient:

fail, give out.

Idioms: fall short, run dry, run short.

3. To become void, especially through passage of time or an omission:

expire, lapse.

phrasal verb
run through

1. To use all of:

consume, drain, draw down, eat up, exhaust, expend, finish, play out, spend, use up.

Informal: polish off.

2. To give a recapitulation of the salient facts of:

abstract, epitomize, go over, recapitulate, review, run down, summarize, sum up, synopsize, wrap up.

Informal: recap.

3. To look through reading matter casually:

browse, dip into, flip through, glance at (or over) (or through), leaf (through), riffle (through), scan, skim, thumb (through).

phrasal verb
run up

To make or become greater or larger:

aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, grow, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, proliferate, rise, snowball, soar, swell, upsurge, wax.

Informal: beef up.

noun

1. A trip in a motor vehicle:

drive, ride.

Informal: spin, whirl.

2. Chiefly Regional. A small stream:

brook, creek.

Chiefly Regional: branch, kill.

3. A hole made by tearing:

rent, rip, tear.

4. A number of things placed or occurring one after the other:

chain, consecution, course, order, procession, progression, round, sequence, series, string, succession, suite, train.

Informal: streak.

Translations

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