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running for the hills

running for the hills is the present participle and gerund of run for the hills.

Meaning of run for the hills

Verb

run for the hills (third-person singular simple present runs for the hills, present participle running for the hills, simple past ran for the hills, past participle run for the hills)

  1. (idiomatic) To flee.

Questions about running for the hills

What is running for the hills the present participle and gerund of?
Running for the hills is the present participle and gerund of run for the hills.

Words near running for the hills in the dictionary

  1. running footmen
  2. running for cover
  3. running for it
  4. running for one's life
  5. running for the exercise
  6. running for the hills
  7. running from the tongue
  8. running gag
  9. running gags
  10. running game
  11. running game on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: running for the hills (page history and authors); run for the hills (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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