Crossword clues for runabout
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. Any of several small vehicles, especially a small motor car for use on short journeys.
WordNet
n. an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat [syn: roadster, two-seater]
Wikipedia
A runabout is any small motorboat holding between four and eight people, well suited to moving about on the water. Runabouts can be used for racing, for pleasure activities like fishing and water skiing, or as a ship's tender for larger vessels. Some common runabout boats are bow rider, center console, cuddy boat and walkaround.
Runabouts are a class of small, multi-purpose starships in the Star Trek science-fiction franchise, primarily the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
A runabout is a small vehicle:
- Runabout (boat), a small boat
- Runabout (car), an antique car body style, and the name of a 1964 concept car
- Runabout (carriage), a type of horse-drawn vehicle
- Runabout (series), a series of destruction driving video games
- Runabout (Transformers), the name of two different characters in the Transformers universe
- Runabout (Star Trek), a type of spacecraft in the Star Trek universe
A runabout is a car body style that was popular in North America until about 1915. It was a light, basic style with no windshield, top, or doors and a single row of seats. Runabouts eventually became indistinguishable from roadsters and the term fell out of use in the United States. The approach has evolved into the modern " city car".
Runabout is a series of destruction-themed driving games developed by Climax Entertainment. Games in this series have been released on PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Dreamcast and Nintendo 3DS. Runabout's main missions consist of the player driving from point A to point B in order to pick up or deliver an item. The first game had more than one map to choose from, whereas the later ones utilized one city map modeled after an actual location— San Francisco in Super Runabout ( Dreamcast) and New York in Runabout 3 Neo Age ( PlayStation 2). Players start off with just a few vehicles. When players complete a mission, destroy as much as they can, or drive without damaging anything, they are rewarded with a new vehicle. In the newer games, players are also rewarded with paint jobs and special abilities for each individual vehicle.
Although made in Japan, all games in the series feature mostly English text and dialogue regardless of the region. Vehicles across all games include a pickup truck, NSR ( Honda NSX), F1 car, tank, and various novelty vehicles such as the RCC ( radio-controlled car).
A runabout is an American light, open, horse-drawn vehicle with four large wheels. Similar to a buggy, the runabout was used for informal, utilitarian travel or "running about" on errands. One type was also called a "driving wagon", made very light in order to be easily hitched by one person, and easily pulled over long distances by a single horse.
A typical example was the light buggy used in the 1890s for daily duties by senior staff of the San Francisco Fire Department. Runabouts could be either fancy or plain, but not encumbered with fenders, heavy tops or optional accessories that added weight.
Usage examples of "runabout".
As it skidded across the deck, foam shot from emitters, and nets stretched between the deck and ceiling, catching the runabout and preventing any serious damage to the craft, its inhabitants, or the shuttlebay.
Liesvelt was patient, easing the runabout through the tangle of cargo haulers and passenger vehicles at a steady pace, until at last they emerged from the District and he could turn onto one of the major cross-town arteries.
Here the traffic was just as heavy, but the lines of runabouts and bikes moved more quickly, and they made better time toward the neighborhood where van Liesvelt said Fate had his bolthole.
The road was busier, too, battered runabouts with unmatched panels and the ubiquitous pickups, each with its bed full of miscellaneous machinery.
Cerise said, and opened the throttle as the line of runabouts picked up speed.
Mabry careful to keep the line of parked cars and runabouts between them and the rooming house.
DS9, we devised a security protocol to keep our runabouts out of Maquis hands.
A heterogeneous and rather casual assortment of utility flyers, passenger saloons, sky-cars, runabouts and inspection drifters, to the number of sixty, each with a complement of from two to eight armed men, assembled at Morningswake, then flew down to Lake Dor, to discover that the Uldra raiders were already retreating across the rocky barrens west of the lake.
Because all the Klingon shuttlecraft were gone, helping the Aluwnans with their transporter satellites, there was plenty of room for the larger runabout to enter and find a place to set down.
The little runabout turned down an avenue lined with feathery anaerobic palm trees and pink statuary and bounced up a flight of broad marble steps into a turntable-style airlock.
But before she could come up with a suitably insulting rejoinder for Brinner, Ezri felt her throat tense up as she recognized what was coming through the runabout door.
And he escorted her back to the runabout without too many people commiserating with her.
Major Kira felt a twinge of trepidation as she watched the runabout status displays, doublechecking as Sisko and O'Brien put the Rubicon through a brief systems check, then powered it up for departure.
The Loon, the Blackduck, and Pizza Dave’s little aluminum runabout were all snugged up to the concrete.
As the building collapsed, the runabout raced into the expanding blast wave.