Usually means: Moving rapidly on foot continuously.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. running: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. running: Merriam-Webster
  3. running: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. running: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. running: Collins English Dictionary
  6. running: Vocabulary.com
  7. Running, running, running: Wordnik
  8. running: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Running, running: Wiktionary
  10. running: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. running: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. running: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. running: Dictionary.com
  14. running: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. running: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Running (Dua Lipa song), Running (Information Society song), Running (James Bay song), Running (Jessie Ware song), Running (No Doubt song), Running (Sandro song), Running (The Desert Rose Band album), Running (Trapeze album), Running (disambiguation), Running (film), Running, The running: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Running: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. running: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. running: Rhymezone
  20. running: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. running: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Running: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. running: FreeDictionary.org
  24. running: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. running: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. running: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. running: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. running: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. running: Legal dictionary
  3. running: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. running: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. running: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Running: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. running: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. running: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. running: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. running: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Running: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. running (your) [jibs]: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Running: Dan's Poker
  2. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Running: Skydiving Glossary
  4. Running: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See run as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Running)

adjective:  Moving or advancing at a run.
adjective:  Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
adjective:  Present, current.
adjective:  Flowing; easy; cursive.
adjective:  Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
adjective:  Having a continuous design or pattern.
adjective:  Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
adjective:  (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
adjective:  (medicine) Discharging pus.
adjective:  (medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
adverb:  (informal) Consecutively; in a row.
noun:  The action of the verb to run.
noun:  The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
noun:  That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
noun:  The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
noun:  (colloquial) The act of running errands.
noun:  (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.
noun:  A surname.

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