noun (n)

• someone who imports or exports without paying duties(noun.person)

  Synonym:
  contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser, smuggler
  

  source: wordnet30
• someone who travels on foot by running(noun.person)

  source: wordnet30
• a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents(noun.person)

  Example:
  He sent a runner over with the contract.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)(noun.person)

  Synonym:
  base runner
  

  source: wordnet30
• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips(noun.plant)

  Synonym:
  offset, stolon
  

  source: wordnet30
• a trained athlete who competes in foot races(noun.person)

  source: wordnet30
• (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play(noun.person)

  Synonym:
  ball carrier
  

  source: wordnet30
• a long narrow carpet(noun.artifact)

  source: wordnet30
• device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along(noun.artifact)

  source: wordnet30
• fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil(noun.animal)

  Synonym:
  blue runner, caranx crysos
  

  source: wordnet30
• One who, or that which, runs; a racer.(noun)

  source: webster1913