<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs</li><li>managing or directing: the running of a business</li><li>an act or instance of racing: the 113th running of the Kentucky Derby</li><li>the condition of a track or surface to be run or raced on: Our track team had muddy running today</li><li>the amount, quality, or type of a liquid flow</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>galloping, racing, moving, or passing rapidly</li><li>(of a horse) going or proceeding rapidly at the gait of a gallop</li><li>taught to proceed at a gallop</li><li>creeping or climbing, as plants: a running vine</li><li>moving or proceeding easily or smoothly</li><li>moving when pulled or hauled, as a rope</li><li>slipping or sliding easily, as a knot or a noose</li><li>operating or functioning, as a machine</li><li>(of measurement) linear; straight-line</li><li>cursive, as handwriting</li><li>flowing, as a stream</li><li>liquid or fluid</li><li>present; current: the running month</li><li>prevalent, as a condition or state: running prices</li><li>going or carried on continuously; sustained: a running commentary</li><li>extending or repeated continuously: a running pattern</li><li>performed with or during a run: a running leap</li><li>discharging pus or other matter: a running sore</li><li>Nautical: noting any of various objects or assemblages of objects that may be moved in ordinary use: running bowsprit; running gaff</li><li>Nautical, Machinery: noting any block of a tackle that moves</li><li>noting the part of the fall of a tackle that moves through the blocks (standing)</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>in succession; consecutively: He slept badly for three nights running.</li></ul>