---

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

• A new study suggests that avid runners enjoy better health than non-exercisers and that the benefits endure for years.
• A runner is transported to an aid station near the finish of the Chicago Marathon October 7, 2007.
• But these competitive long-distance runners don't make up the bulk of any marathon's participants.

• smuggler
• contrabandist
• moon curser
• moon-curser
• base runner
• stolon
• offset
• ball carrier
• blue runner
• Caranx crysos

News & Articles

---

• Runner's Disappearance Prompts Changes
  Runner's disappearance in extreme Alaska mountain race prompts changes in rules        
  June 13, 2013 - ABC News
• Runner 2 Vita release window narrowed to 'between mid-July and mid-August'
  The PlayStation Vita version of Gaijin Games' Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien will block, spring, slide and/or jump its way onto PlayStation Network sometime between mid-July and mid-August, Gaijin Games designer Danny Johnson told us during this week's E3 in Los Angeles. "At least that's the plan," Johnson said. "The version we have here [at E3] has been in development for a couple ...
  June 13, 2013 - Joystiq
• Florida runner wins Thelma and Louise race; Moab’s Atkinson takes second
  A Florida runner who hopes to try for the U.S. Olympic marathon team blasted away from the field Saturday, June 1, to win the second annual Thelma and Louise Half-Marathon.
  June 13, 2013 - The Moab Times-Independent