ran barefoot through

Verb

run barefoot through (third-person singular simple present runs barefoot through, present participle running barefoot through, simple past ran barefoot through, past participle run barefoot through)

1. To explore or experience freely and with enjoyment.
   • The impasto surfaces — skittering, superimposed grids and crosshatchings with highly sophisticated interplays of color and rhythm — are so lush and richly textured that you want to run barefoot through them.1994, The New Yorker, page 16
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, barefoot, through.