runner

noun

1. someone who imports or exports without paying duties

   noun.person

   Synonyms contrabandist moon curser moon-curser smuggler

   Source: WordNet 3.0

2. someone who travels on foot by running

   noun.person

   Source: WordNet 3.0

3. a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents

   noun.person

   Examples

   He sent a runner over with the contract.

   Source: WordNet 3.0

4. a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

   noun.person

   Synonyms base runner

   Source: WordNet 3.0

5. a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

   noun.plant

   Synonyms offset stolon

   Source: WordNet 3.0

6. a trained athlete who competes in foot races

   noun.person

   Source: WordNet 3.0

7. (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

   noun.person

   Synonyms ball carrier

   Source: WordNet 3.0

8. a long narrow carpet

   noun.artifact

   Source: WordNet 3.0

9. device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

   noun.artifact

   Source: WordNet 3.0

10. fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

    noun.animal

    Synonyms blue runner caranx crysos

    Source: WordNet 3.0

11. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

    noun

    Source: webster1913