Usually means: Moving rapidly on foot continuously.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. running: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. running: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. running: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. running: Collins English Dictionary
  5. running: Vocabulary.com
  6. Running, running, running: Wordnik
  7. running: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Running, running: Wiktionary
  9. running: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. running: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. running: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. running: Dictionary.com
  13. running: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. running: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. 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
  16. Running: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. running: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. running: Rhymezone
  19. running: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. running: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Running: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. running: Free Dictionary
  23. running: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. running: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. running: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. running: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. running: Legal dictionary
  2. running: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. running: Encyclopedia

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