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

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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, sportplay - 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"

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verb1. 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 acrossTo 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 afterTo follow (another) with the intent of overtaking and capturing:chase, pursue.Idioms: be in pursuit, give chase.phrasal verb
run awayTo 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 down1. 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 in1. 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 into1. 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 onTo 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 out1. 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 through1. 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 upTo 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.noun1. 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.

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