Meaning of running

run•ning

1. the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
2. managing or directing: the running of a business.
3. an act or instance of racing: the 113th running of the Kentucky Derby.
4. the condition of a track or surface to be run or raced on; footing: Our track team had muddy running today.
5. the amount, quality, or type of a liquid flow.
6. Who is still in the running for the directorship?
1. participating or entered as a competitor.
2. under consideration as a candidate or possible choice:Who is still in the running for the directorship?
3. among the winners or those making a good showing.
7. to finish out of the running.
1. not competing in a contest or race.
2. not among the winners or runners-up in a contest or race:to finish out of the running.

1. galloping, racing, moving, or passing rapidly.
2. (of a horse)
1. going or proceeding rapidly at the gait of a gallop.
2. taught to proceed at a gallop.
3. creeping or climbing, as plants: a running vine.
4. moving or proceeding easily or smoothly.
5. moving when pulled or hauled, as a rope.
6. slipping or sliding easily, as a knot or a noose.
7. operating or functioning, as a machine.
8. (of measurement) linear; straight-line.
9. cursive, as handwriting.
10. flowing, as a stream.
11. liquid or fluid.
12. present; current: the running month.
13. prevalent, as a condition or state: running prices.
14. going or carried on continuously; sustained: a running commentary.
15. extending or repeated continuously: a running pattern.
16. performed with or during a run: a running leap.
17. discharging pus or other matter: a running sore.
18. noting any of various objects or assemblages of objects that may be moved in ordinary use: running bowsprit; running gaff.
1. noting any block of a tackle that moves.
2. noting the part of the fall of a tackle that moves through the blocks (opposed to standing).

1. in succession; consecutively: He slept badly for three nights running.