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What is another word for Runnings?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈʌnɪŋz] (IPA)

Runnings is a word that refers to various activities that involve running. There are several synonyms for this word, and each of them describes different types of running activities. For instance, jogging is a synonym for running, which refers to a slow-paced running activity that people do for exercise. Sprinting is another synonym that describes a fast-paced running activity where people run as fast as possible over a short distance. Race, dash, and marathon are other terms that are synonymous with running and refer to activities where people compete against each other while running. All of these synonyms are used to describe different types of running activities, and they all have their unique purposes and benefits.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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So great was the disturbance created at home by Dicky's experience which necessitated the calling of a doctor to make sure that he and Ethel Blue were getting on safely, and so frequent were the Runnings up and down stairs with hot water and hot cloths and hot drinks and dry clothes that it was nightfall before Mrs. Morton had a chance to ask her brother-in-law how it happened that he had a furlough just at that time.
"Ethel Morton at Chautauqua"
Mabell S. C. Smith
And her callings had told unto the Evil things of the Land that she did be in this part and that; for there had come things and beasts in search for her; but having the gift of the hearing, she had known of their approach, most whiles, and had come free from them; yet oft-times with piteous and fearful Runnings and hiding among the rocks and the bushes, so that she had grown afterward to make no calling unto me, save odd whiles, lest she bring the monsters upon her.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
His first works are so incomparably the worst that I can't admit your theory of the 'first Runnings.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon

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