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Sport DictionaryBaseball
The score made by an offensive player who advances from batter to runner and touches first, second, third and home bases in that order.
Sport DictionaryNautical Know How
To allow a line to feed freely.
Sport DictionaryMaritime Terms
The aftermost part of a ship's bottom, where it grows extremely narrow as the stern approaches the stern-post. Run is also the distance sailed by a ship, and is likewise used by sailors to imply the agreement to work a single passage from one place to another. To run down, when one ship sinks another by running over her. Running on a bow-line sailing with the wind right aft [sic; cf. LARGE, SAILING]. To let run, to make loose, as a rope; to slacken; to let go.
Sport DictionarySoccer Dictionary
A run by an attacker on the opposite side of a defender from the ball.

 
A run made side-to-side as opposed to end-to-end or diagonally.

 
A run made by an attacker, diagonally, from a central position towards a touchline

 
A run made by an attacker, diagonally, from a flank (wing) position towards a central position.

 
The movement of an attacking player from a position behind the ball, outside the player with the ball and into a position ahead of the ball.

 
Runs made usually by central forward players in opposite directions in order to create space in central attacking positions.

Sport DictionaryWorldgolf
The distance the ball rolls on the ground or when it lands on the ground

 

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