Wiktionary
n. A continuous verbal, or written description of events as they happen.
Usage examples of "running commentary".
Flynn kept his camera moving in and out of the action, flying quickly back and forth on its antigrav unit, hovering overhead when the action got a little too close, while Toby kept up a running commentary.
Ludwig, smoking frantically, stood with his back to the arena, the rest of the German team giving him a running commentary.
As soon as this conference convenes, I can keep a running commentary going and, hope against hope, regain the initiative!
In the meantime, blissfully unaware of what was about to happen, I was trying to learn as much as possible about the real underbelly of pro football by watching a film of the Denver-Dallas game with several Raider players who provided a running commentary on the action -- trying to explain, in language as close as they could cut it for the layman's slow eye, what was happening on the screen and how it might or might not relate to the Denver-Oakland game coming up next Sunday.
Hewett grabbed the microphone and began a breathless running commentary.
Their running commentary on the Holy City was more in the order of a paean to its loveliness, its passion, its mysterious hold on the hearts of men.
Humperman on his left, camera at her shoulder the way he had instructed, was capturing her own view of things, carrying on a running commentary to explain her pictures.
They were presumably unemployed or off-duty seamen and stevedores, seated on rope coils or leaning on bollards all over the cobbled waterside area, all of them smoking stumpy pipes or chewing tobacco, all keeping up a running commentary&mdash.