runner

Meanings

• someone who imports or exports without paying duties
• someone who travels on foot by running
• a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
  • "he sent a runner over with the contract"
• a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
• a trained athlete who competes in foot races
• (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
• a long narrow carpet
• device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
• fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

Synonyms

ball carrier, base runner, blue runner, Caranx crysos, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser, offset, smuggler, stolon