Other forms: runners
A runner is somebody who runs, especially in a race. A long-distance runner, the leading runner, a runner in the third race.
It also names a strip of carpet down a hall, a horse entered in a race, and a shoot a plant sends out sideways to root itself. On a film set a runner is the most junior job there is.
1nounrunnerSomebody who runs, especially in a race.
“The runners lined up at the start, waiting for the gun.”
runner is a person.
Middle English rennere comes from run plus -er, from Old English rinnan.
Middle English
rennere
English, today
runner
From Middle English rennere, rynner, urnare, equivalent to run + -er. Cognate with Old Norse rennari (“runner; messenger”). Displaced earlier Middle English runel (“runner”), from Old English rynel (“runner”; also “messenger, courier”). botany a long stolon sent by a plant Compare typologically побе́г (akin to бежа́ть).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA