Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun runner

10 senses of runner

Sense 1
smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser -- (someone who imports or exports without paying duties)
       => criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor -- (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

Sense 2
runner -- (someone who travels on foot by running)
       => traveler, traveller -- (a person who changes location)

Sense 3
runner -- (a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract")
       => messenger, courier -- (a person who carries a message)

Sense 4
base runner, runner -- (a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base))
       => ballplayer, baseball player -- (an athlete who plays baseball)

Sense 5
stolon, runner, offset -- (a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips)
       => plant organ -- (a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus)

Sense 6
runner -- (a trained athlete who competes in foot races)
       => athlete, jock -- (a person trained to compete in sports)

Sense 7
ball carrier, runner -- ((football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play)
       => football player, footballer -- (an athlete who plays American football)

Sense 8
runner -- (a long narrow carpet)
       => rug, carpet, carpeting -- (floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile))

Sense 9
runner -- (device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along)
       => device -- (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water")

Sense 10
runner, blue runner, Caranx crysos -- (fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil)
       => jack -- (any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas)