run around
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.31 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To move from one end of the consist to the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.
verb
To change one's position on the court to hit a forehand rather than a backhand, or vice versa.
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around.
noun
Alternative form of runaround.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around.
Example Sentences
- "I don't want to run around all week getting everything ready for the holidays."
- "“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”"
- "He'd gotten into tremendous shape so that he could run around his backhand and avoid hitting it altogether. He even tried a left-handed forehand. That was how desperate he was."
- "The children ran around in the playground."
- "Natrum sulp. is my specific for inflammations of the matrix of the nails or " run arounds.""
- "The sketch shows the arrangement of run arounds for bringing the loaded trips into the bottom and for returning the empties to the proper quarter of the mine."