- 1the action or sport of running to go running running shoes
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- 2the activity of managing or operating something the day-to-day running of a business the running costs of a car (= for example of fuel, repairs, insurance)
- 3-running (in compounds) the activity of bringing something such as drugs, guns, etc. into a country secretly and illegally drug-running Idioms
having some/no chance of succeeding or achieving something
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