RUNNERS Antonyms

• someone who wastes time

• an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it

• an article of clothing designed for comfort and leisure wear

• an organism (person or animal) that sits

• Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)

• a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home

• a person who poses for a painter or sculptor

• a domestic hen ready to brood

• a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage

• an organism (person or animal) that stands

• someone who strays or falls behind

• someone who walks at a leisurely pace

• a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around

• someone who walks with a waddling gait

• a person who travels by foot

• New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less than 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952)

• a shoe designed for comfortable walking

• United States writer (born in 1944)

• a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk

• an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk

• a growth in strength or number or importance

• the act of changing location in an upward direction

• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

• a movement upward; rise above the ground

• the amount a salary is increased

• the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

• a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

• (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

• an increase in cost

• increase in price or value

• move upward

• increase in value or to a higher point

• rise to one's feet

• rise up

• come to the surface

• come into existence; take on form or shape

• move to a better position in life or to a better job

• go up or advance

• become more extreme

• get up and out of bed

• rise in rank or status

• become heartened or elated

• exert oneself to meet a challenge

• take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

• increase in volume

• come up, of celestial bodies

• return from the dead

• a person who rises (especially from bed)

• a vertical pipe in a building

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