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moonrunning

moonrunning is the present participle and gerund of moonrun.

Meaning of moonrun

Verb

moonrun (third-person singular simple present moonruns, present participle moonrunning, simple past and past participle moonran)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To move while sliding backwards as though the feet move as if one was running forwards.
    • Those four rings of yours do not allow you to attempt moonrunning! Now, let's get you back where you started, shall we? The moonlight was like a gigantic bolt of silk flung from Goddess Keep to Waes. He slid along it pell-mell, breathless at the speed and the whirl of colors around him. Back in the...2005, Melanie Rawn, The Star Scroll, Penguin, →ISBN

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Questions about moonrunning

What is moonrunning the present participle and gerund of?
Moonrunning is the present participle and gerund of moonrun.

Words near moonrunning in the dictionary

  1. moonrun
  2. moonrune
  3. moonrunes
  4. moonrunner
  5. moonrunners
  6. moonrunning
  7. moonruns
  8. moons
  9. moonsail
  10. moonsails
  11. moonsault

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moonrunning (page history and authors); moonrun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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