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, sports and/or games:
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)