RUNNERS Synonyms

• the contestant you hope to defeat

• the contestant you hope to defeat

• a person who participates in competitions

• a person who dissents from some established policy

• someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise)

• someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons)

• someone who takes part in an activity

• a person who participates in or is skilled at some game

• someone who drives racing cars at high speeds

• a fast car that competes in races

• an animal that races

• slender fast-moving North American snakes

• someone who runs a short distance at top speed

• a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole

• someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• one who trains other persons or animals

• simulator consisting of a machine on the ground that simulates the conditions of flying a plane

• someone who imports or exports without paying duties

• kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment

• murder in a planned fashion

• put in effect

• carry out the legalities of

• carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine

• carry out or perform an action

• sign in the presence of witnesses

• steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down

• ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress

• a row of unravelled stitches

• come unraveled or undone as if by snagging

• someone who imports or exports without paying duties

• the time at which something is supposed to begin

• a compensating equivalent

• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

• a natural consequence of development

• a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper

• structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly

• compensate for or counterbalance

• make up for

• cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface

• create an offset in

• produce by offset printing

• someone who imports or exports without paying duties

• the beginning of anything

• the time at which something is supposed to begin

• a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)

• a sudden involuntary movement

• the act of starting something

• a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game

• a signal to begin (as in a race)

• the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

• set in motion, cause to start

• depart for someplace

• have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense

• bring into being

• get off the ground

• move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm

• get going or set in motion

• begin or set in motion

• begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job

• play in the starting lineup

• have a beginning characterized in some specified way

• begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object

• bulge outward

• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

• a step in walking or running

• the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire

• the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground

• structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step

• put down or press the foot, place the foot

• tread or stomp heavily or roughly

• crush as if by treading on

• brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center

• apply (the tread) to a tire

• mate with (used of male birds)