# running
## English
### Etymology

By surface analysis, run +‎ -ing.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈɹʌniŋ/
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* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌnɪŋ

### Verb

running
* present participle and gerund of run

### Adjective

running (not comparable)
* Moving or advancing at a run.
** Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
* Present, current.
    running month
* Flowing; easy; cursive.
    running handwriting
* Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
    a running commentary, a running explanation
** 1778, John Hamilton Moore, A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels:Thus a constant running fire was kept up, and no interval allowed for the enemy to stand to their guns in safety […]
** 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:a running conquest
** 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?
* Having a continuous design or pattern.
    running bond; running ornament
* Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
    He won the title for three running years.
* (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
    a running vine
* (medicine) Discharging pus.
    a running sore
* (medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
    Synonym: runny
    a running nose

#### Derived terms

* free-running
* long-running
* non-running
* running hyena
* running room
* running sand
* smooth-running
* take a running jump

#### Translations
### Adverb

running (not comparable)
* (informal) Consecutively; in a row.
    Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.

#### Translations
### Noun

running (countable and uncountable, plural runnings)
* The action of the verb to run.
    His running of the business leaves something to be desired.
** 2022 January 12, “Network News: Trading of Go-Ahead Group shares halted”, in RAIL, number 948, page 7:The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which was stripped of its franchise in October [...].
* The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
    Running is good exercise.
* That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
    the first running of a still
* The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
* (colloquial) The act of running errands.
    I'm gonna go out and do my running.
* (physics) The dependence of measured value, typically a coupling constant, on the energy scale at which it is probed due to higher-order interaction terms and associated renormalization issues becoming relevant; metaphorically, the "running" of the measurement from its limiting macroscopic value.

#### Derived terms

* free running, freerunning
* make all the running
* make the running
* river running
* running coupling
* running game
* running lights
* running stroller
* tunnel running

#### Translations
### Preposition

running
* (colloquial) Approaching; about; roughly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

#### Derived terms

* bull-running
* bungee running
* come running
* drug running
* fell running
* free running
* front-running
* front running
* hand running
* hit the ground running
* hitting and running
* in running order
* in the running
* make good one's running
* off and running
* out of the running
* rat running
* retro running
* running and racing
* running back
* running battle
* running block
* running board
* running commentary
* running costs
* running day
* running dictation
* running dog
* running fight
* running fire
* running flush
* running gag
* running gear
* running hand
* running head
* running heading
* running headline
* running in
* running iron
* running joke
* running knot
* running lane
* running light
* running line
* running load
* running madness
* running man
* running mate
* running meter
* running of the bulls
* running order
* running powers
* running rail
* running rein
* running rigging
* running script
* running serviceberry
* running shed
* running shoe
* running shoes
* running sore
* running speech
* running stationer
* running stitch
* running target
* running text
* running the gauntlet
* running therapy
* running thrush
* running time
* running title
* running track
* running trap
* running W
* running water
* take up the running
* up and running

### References

* “running”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

## Spanish
### Noun

running m (uncountable)
* running, jogging