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Plural of runner

regular plural

The plural of runner is runners.

Forms of runner

Singularrunner /ˈɹʌnɚ/
Pluralrunners
Countablecountable

Runners in a sentence

  • The modus operandi used by the idol and antique runners is to order consignments of fakes.1992, Hamendar Bhisham Pal, The Plunder of Art, page 75
  • It was a discussion about a significant step to end one of the cornerstones of corruption in college football: runners.Freeman, Mike (25 February 2012), “Runners' world: Union boss Smith's noble idea likely stuck at the start”, in (Please provide the book...
  • The runners drew level with each other as they approached the finish line.From the entry draw
  • And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.From the entry round
  • The five exhausted runners crossed the finish line one after the other.From the entry finish line

Meaning of runner

  1. noun A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
  2. noun Any entrant, person or animal (especially a horse), for a race or any competition; a candidate for an election.
  3. noun A competitor in a poker tournament.

Full definition of runner

Questions about the plural of runner

What is the plural of runner?
The plural of runner is runners.
Is runner countable?
Runner is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: runner (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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