RUNS Synonyms: 478 Similar and Opposite Words

runs 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of run

as in jogs

to go at a pace faster than a walk we ran all the way to the bus stop, but still missed the bus

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as in flees

to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening rather than run from a black bear, it's better to hold your ground and make lots of noise

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as in leads

to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction the road runs along the river for a while

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as in varies

to occur within a continuous range of variation the electric bill runs between 30 and 50 dollars a month

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as in flows

to move in a stream water running down the window

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as in races

to proceed or move quickly run and get the nurse

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as in tends

to show a liking or proneness (for something) unfortunately, members of his family run to fatness

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as in drives

to urge, push, or force onward they ran the horses hard in order to get to the ranch quickly

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as in operates

to control the mechanical operation of I know how to run that machine

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as in becomes

to eventually have as a state or quality the poor woman ran herself ragged trying to care for all those children

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as in melts

to go from a solid to a liquid state her makeup started to run when she got in the pool

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as in manages

to look after and make decisions about learning to run the family business

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as in activates

to cause to function in olden days mills were run by flowing water

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as in costs

to have a price of that sort of computer runs at least several hundred dollars

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as in travels

to come or be together as friends he's been running with a bad crowd lately

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as in chases

to go after or on the track of if that dog continues to run cars, he's going to get seriously hurt

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runs

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noun

plural of run

as in diarrhea

abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools with weekend guests in the house, it was no time to get the runs

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Recent Examples of runs

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The center runs 24 hours a day for 362 days each year, allowing United to cycle pilots through training without slowing its broader flight operations. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026 Both schools also made deep postseason runs thanks, in part, to their ground attacks. — Dan Albano, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2026 Another runs patient-access operations for midsized health systems, doesn't do outbound sales and takes no work outside healthcare. — Andrew Kokes, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 Tracey Bogan said in a January lawsuit that her horse Kodak suffered an eye injury at Reform Stables in Charlotte when Desmon Moore, who runs the boarding and equine event business, rode him without permission last Christmas. — Amber Gaudet updated August 21, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2026 Back-to-School Pricing The Back-to-School promotion runs from July 24 through August 23 for students, remote workers, and home users updating their workspaces. — New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2026 Achane and a pair runs more than 10 yards from Ollie Gordon II. — Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026 The deepening rift comes as da Silva, a leftist, runs for a fourth term. — Rafi Schwartz, TheWeek, 14 Aug. 2026 But respect only runs one way, and — despite an impeccable résumé and unrivaled skillset — John isn’t on the receiving end. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026

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With five runs plated in Wednesday’s win, the Yankees, stuck in an extended offensive dry spell, have now scored at least four runs in consecutive games for the first time since July 9-12. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2026 The bomber picks up the hidden camera attached to something across the street and runs. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026 The two-day free event is scheduled to begin on Saturday with practice runs, an NTT IndyCar Series qualifying run and an International Race of Champions Racing Series (IROC) event. — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026 Clemens drove in three runs and Kaelen Culpepper added three hits for Minnesota. — CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 The 23-year-old right-hander gave up three hits, two runs and two walks in 3 2/3 innings. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 In 406 plate appearances, Jose Ramirez has hit 10 long balls, tallied 38 RBIs and scored 56 runs. — Data Skrive, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Javier Sanoja homered as part of a 3-for-3 effort for Miami, while Sandy Alcantara (13-8) yielded three runs and eight hits with only one strikeout over six innings. — Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026 The Nationals’ lefty, who was selected in the fourth round of the 2024 draft, pitched into the fifth inning and allowed three runs. — Danielle Allentuck, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for runs

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Against Senegal, Odegaard casually jogs off the pitch at the near post to drag a player away from the box as Julian Ryerson delivers the corner.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Orchard Street, which jogs awkwardly around the one-time dump at Gowen Road, in particular needs to change, according to both Ada County Highway District and Boise city reports.

— Mark Dee July 8, Idaho Statesman, 8 July 2026

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At the end of the 2001 film, Rodriguez’s Letty flees the country.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 19 Aug. 2026
Holden eagerly rebels against Pencey Prep, gets the boot, and flees to New York City, a place with its own vices and hazards, but without the sort of propaganda and pretense that obscure the school’s dark underside.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of flees

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The platform CentraLife calls a centralized repository runs leads, calls, policy management, reporting, and compensation across CentraLife’s advisor network as one system.

— Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
The long gallery entry to this corner one-bedroom leads into the spacious living area with four oversize north- and east-facing windows and a pair of dueling chandeliers.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of leads

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Traffic on the critical waterway, through which one-fifth of global crude oil typically flows, has reduced to a trickle since the war started in February.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
When money flows into a mutual fund, the fund issues new shares at NAV and receives cash that can be invested in the portfolio.

— byDoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026

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Finn Gomez / Getty Images Kirkwood, who races for Andretti Global, started second but took the lead on the opening lap with a daring maneuver around the outside of pole-sitter and championship leader Alex Palou in front of the National Archives.

— Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2026
When Phoebe Hunt, a documentarian for Tempus Tours, discovers that a real estate heiress who didn’t return from a journey is actually a suspicious woman from Phoebe’s past, Phoebe races to stop history from being rewritten.

— Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026