Term: running back: (football) a back on the offensive team (a fullback or halfback) who tries to advance the ball by carrying it on plays from the line of scrimmage
Broader: back: (football) a person who plays in the backfield | Unrelated: oak fern: bright blue-green fern widely distributed especially in damp acid woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere
Broader: back: (football) a person who plays in the backfield | Unrelated: kernel: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Broader: back: (football) a person who plays in the backfield | Unrelated: hypsography: the scientific study of the earth's configuration above sea level (emphasizing the measurement of land altitudes relative to sea level)
Broader: back: (football) a person who plays in the backfield | Unrelated: hoot: a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
Broader: back: (football) a person who plays in the backfield | Unrelated: genus protoavis: extinct primitive birds of the Triassic period; 70 million years before archaeopteryx
Broader: back: (football) a person who plays in the backfield | Unrelated: acantholysis: a breakdown of a cell layer in the epidermis (as in pemphigus)
Broader: back: (football) a person who plays in the backfield | Unrelated: ascocarp: mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus
Broader: back: (football) a person who plays in the backfield | Unrelated: dugongidae: a family of mammals of order Sirenia including dugongs and Steller's sea cow
Broader: back: (football) a person who plays in the backfield | Unrelated: eyestrain: a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem
Broader: back: (football) a person who plays in the backfield | Unrelated: mucor: any mold of the genus Mucor