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One on the run
Answer for the clue "One on the run ", 10 letters:
marathoner
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Word definitions for marathoner in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) [syn: marathon runner , road runner , long-distance runner ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Someone who participates in a marathon or other long-distance races.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A lot of marathoners are versatile runners. ▪ David Tagg from the International Federation of Aromatherapists says there are a number of oils which could help weary marathoners. ▪ Eventually, I came to my senses and accepted ...
Usage examples of marathoner.
Margaret Mahony's morning had already been traumatic, nursing marathoner Tani Ruckle who had run herself into dehydration.
It was boring for them all, as none were marathoners, and the steps of the leading runners were endlessly the same.
A lot of them slowed their pace to get cold drinks, and some ran through pre-spotted water showers to cool off, though the TV commentators said that these had the effect of tightening up the leg muscles and were therefore not really a good thing for marathoners to do.
Many marathoners ran twenty-six miles at slightly over five minutes to the mile, but they weren't packing along forty pounds of gear on their backs.
A six-minutes-to-the-mile pace is just a little slower than the professional marathoners go.
Now I know that Olympic runners break the four-minute mile, and that marathoners maintain the five-minute mile indefinitely, and a healthy young man can do a mile in six minutes.
Whereupon Wally Hemphill, marathoner turned martial artist, leapt from the sofa, whirled like a dervish, and delivered a spinning back kick that knocked the gun from his hand, following it with a move I couldn't follow that sent Mapes reeling across the room, right into the arms of a cop and two thugs.