Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

school run

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.29 in modern English

Syllables: school run
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A period of increased traffic where parents or carers take or collect children to and from school by car; a journey for this purpose during this period.

British usage

Example Sentences

"The roads are crammed with parents on the school run."
"Would you mind doing the school run for James this morning?"
"A billion trips are made on the school run every year and, between us, parents produce two million extra tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, a cause of global warming."

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

school runs (plural)

Questions

What does school run mean?: A period of increased traffic where parents or carers take or collect children to and from school by car; a journey for this purpose during this period.

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