| Noun | 1. | runner - someone who imports or exports without paying dutiescoyote - someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually acress the Mexican border) rumrunner - someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border | |
| 2. | runner - someone who travels on foot by runningjogger - someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise) | |
| 3. | runner - a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract" | |
| 4. | runner - a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)baseball, baseball game, ball - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empy lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" | |
| 5. | runner - a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tipsplant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus | |
| 6. | runner - a trained athlete who competes in foot racesmiler - a runner in a one-mile race sprinter - someone who runs a short distance at top speed | |
| 7. | runner - a long narrow carpetcarpet, carpeting, rug - floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) | |
| 8. | runner - device consisting of the parts on which something can slide alongblade - the part of the skate that slides on the ice device - an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" ski, skis - narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow sled, sledge, sleigh - a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | |
| 9. | runner - fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Braziljack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm-temperate seas | |