Synonyms of running on

running on 1 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
• shooting the breeze
• chewing the rag
• chewing the fat
• rattling
• talking a blue streak
• chattering
• pattering
• prating
• discussing
• gabbing
• rapping
• babbling
• nattering
• schmoozing
• jabbering
• visiting
• prattling
• chinning
• blabbing
• gassing
• cackling
• gabbling
• kibitzing
• jawing
• palavering
• twittering
• shmoozing
• kibbitzing
• chaffering
• gossiping
• tattling
• expatiating
• yapping
• descanting
• yakking
• yammering
• yacking

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
• chatting
• deviating
• straying
• digressing
• sidetracking
• drivelling
• pattering
• chattering
• prating
• blithering
• gibbering
• blabbering
• waffling
• burbling
• gabbing
• drooling
• jabbering
• prattling
• blabbing
• driveling
• gabbling
• bumbling

running on

2 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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of running on

Adjective

Every highlight from the game, every story about Virginia’s victory, led with the fans running on the field. —Will Leitch, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025

Servers running on motherboards sold by Supermicro contain high-severity vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to remotely install malicious firmware that runs even before the operating system, making infections impossible to detect or remove without unusual protections in place. —Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025

The 14-year-old was one of many in a crowd of people who were walking or running on Happy Valley Road as Speed, as he is also known, left the meetup. —Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 24 Sep. 2025

This opens a door for attackers to destabilize the browser or system its running on, to execute their own code. —Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

My column, Get Organized, has been running on PCMag since 2012. —PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025

To increase the intensity and the number of calories burned, try running on a hill or a treadmill incline, or add intervals of fast pace alternating with a moderate pace. —Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2025

Dale, who’s elected mayor after running on an anti-mask platform at the height of the pandemic, talks himself out of the position after thirty-six hours. —Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025