Synonyms of running on

running on 1 of 2

adjective

as in holding up

Related Words

• holding up
• keeping up
• holding on
• lasting
• enduring
• abiding
• residual
• persisting
• lingering
• continuing
• staying
• sticking around
• perduring
• biding
• remaining
• leftover
• surviving
• carrying through
• tarrying
• prevailing

Dissimilar Words

• dying (down)
• letting up
• waning
• winding up
• subsiding
• moderating
• ebbing
• abating
• ending
• dying
• passing
• concluding
• finishing
• closing
• terminating
• stopping
• ceasing
• leaving off
• quitting
• lapsing
• expiring
• discontinuing
• desisting

running on

2 of 2

verb

present participle of run on

1

as in chatting

to engage in casual or rambling conversation

we were just running on about how neither of us has aged a bit after all these years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chatting
• talking
• conversing
• blowing smoke
• chewing the fat
• shooting the breeze
• rattling
• talking a blue streak
• chattering
• pattering
• prating
• discussing
• gabbing
• visiting
• rapping
• babbling
• nattering
• jabbering
• prattling
• schmoozing
• chinning
• gassing
• blabbing
• cackling
• gabbling
• kibitzing
• jawing
• twittering
• gossiping
• chaffering
• palavering
• tattling
• expatiating
• yapping
• yammering
• yakking
• descanting

2

as in remaining

to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state

allow the savings account to run on for now

Synonyms & Similar Words

• remaining
• continuing
• lasting
• holding on
• keeping up
• persisting
• staying
• holding up
• enduring
• surviving
• lingering
• abiding
• sticking around
• perduring
• carrying through
• prevailing
• biding
• tarrying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• winding up
• ending
• dying
• passing
• finishing
• closing
• stopping
• dying (down)
• concluding
• terminating
• expiring
• leaving off
• ceasing
• discontinuing
• lapsing
• quitting
• waning
• moderating
• desisting
• letting up
• subsiding
• ebbing
• abating

3

as in going on

to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point

she's very sweet, but she does tend to run on

Synonyms & Similar Words

• going on
• rambling
• blathering (on)
• rattling
• running one's mouth
• wandering
• maundering
• deviating
• straying
• chatting
• digressing
• sidetracking
• pattering
• chattering
• prating
• blithering
• gibbering
• blabbering
• waffling
• burbling
• gabbing
• drooling
• jabbering
• prattling
• blabbing
• driveling
• gabbling
• bumbling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of running on

Verb

Maine state Senate President Mattie Daughtry, a Democrat, is encouraged to see many of the candidates running on Platner's progressive platform of transformational change. — Tamara Keith, NPR, 14 July 2026

Platner, a Marine veteran and oysterman from coastal Maine, won the state primary last month by running on an anti-establishment platform. — Lia Russell july 9, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026

Instead of running on synthetic fuels, hydrogen fuel cell engines rely on lightweight liquid hydrogen that is burned in an electrochemical reaction to power large lithium batteries. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 8 July 2026

The second stage is a lean Mach-O file written for Macs running on Apple CPUs. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026

If the device experience fails, the software running on it rarely delivers its intended value. — Damini Sood, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

Next to him were Brad Lander, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, all left-leaning candidates running on a platform that includes abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and taking on bad landlords and greedy corporations. — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 June 2026

Meanwhile, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson are running on the Democratic side. — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 22 June 2026

Unusual modes of locomotion include lizards running on water, snakes gliding, and apes swinging through trees. — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026