Unscramble runners

Definition of runner

noun:

• someone who imports or exports without paying duties. Synonyms: contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser, smuggler.
• someone who travels on foot by running.
• a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract".
• a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base). Synonyms: base runner.
• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips. Synonyms: offset, stolon.
• a trained athlete who competes in foot races.
• (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play. Synonyms: ball carrier.
• a long narrow carpet.
• device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along.
• fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil. Synonyms: Caranx crysos, blue runner.

Related words

blade, coyote, gunrunner, jogger, marathoner, miler, passer, rumrunner, rusher, ski, sprinter.

Words nearby

cunner, gunner, ruiner, runnel.

Rhymes with

gunner, stunner.