Run - Sports and Games

Sports and Games

  • Run (American football), an offensive action in American football
  • Run (baseball), the unit of scoring in baseball
  • Run (cricket), the unit of scoring in cricket
  • Run, the unit of scoring in softball
  • A variety of events in track and field athletics
  • Run (cards), a series of playing cards with consecutive values
  • Piste or ski run, a marked trail down a mountain for winter sports
  • Run, in sailing, to sail downwind

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Famous quotes containing the words sports and/or games:

    “Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)