#runner

• Fast runner — An archaic or regional term designating a person or animal that runs a lot, swiftly, and with ease; a good racing or trotting horse; a fast foot courier or messenger. As an adjective, it describes a being characterized by speed in motion, locomotor agility, or a native tendency to run often.
• Fast runner — An old lexicographical, regional, or spelling variant of the term alergaci; a swift-footed person or a racing horse capable of remarkable speed. In 19th-century administrative manuscripts and literary texts, the form retained the full vocalic ending in '-iu', later simplified according to modern academic standards.
• Female runner — 1. A woman who practices running as a sport or physical exercise; a female track or marathon athlete. 2. That which runs, swift-footed, characterized by rapid movement. 3. A bird or animal structurally adapted for rapid terrestrial locomotion (e.g., ratites/running birds like the ostrich). 4. Historically, a popular name given to a fast-flowing river or the upper, mobile stone of a traditional grinding mill.
• Runner — 1. A person (man) who runs, especially an athlete participating in sprints, middle-distance, long-distance, or marathon races. 2. That which moves rapidly, swift-footed. 3. Historically, a fast foot messenger or courier tasked with delivering urgent correspondence. 4. A technical device, a mobile part within a mechanism (e.g., a rotor), or a long, narrow carpet runner used to protect floors in hallways.
• Androsace sarmentosa — A species of stoloniferous (sarmentose) perennial herbaceous plant in the family Primulaceae, native to alpine meadows and rocky slopes of the Himalayas. The plant structurally forms large rosettes of silvery-green leaves covered with silky hairs, which throw out rigid reddish runners for rapid substrate colonization, producing cherry-pink flowers.
• Predecessor — The feminine form of antecessor; a woman who preceded someone in an office, dignity, or possession, or an ancestral species, generation, or structure from which a current organism evolved. As an adjective, it describes a prior feminine entity or biological line that paves the way for its successors.
• Predecessor — A person who preceded someone in an office, dignity, position, or possession of property; a forerunner, predecessor, or ancestor of a family or evolutionary lineage. In a biological and anthropological sense, the term denotes an ancestral organism or archaic species from which current life forms developed through successive genetic transformations.