as in trotting
to go at a pace faster than a walk
he sprinted off to class so as to avoid being late
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Recent Examples of sprinting
Staffers crouched with towels on the baseline spent an undue portion of the night sprinting to various corners of the United Center court, mopping up sweat off the hardwood after players from both teams had tumbled and tripped and sprawled onto the floor.
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Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
After Murray assisted a Watson 3-pointer with seven seconds left, LeBron James tried sprinting coast-to-coast to beat the clock.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
Strategy was formerly known as MicroStrategy — going public in June 1998 at $10 a share — promptly sprinting up 31-fold to around $320 before sinking fast in the wake of the dot-com bubble bursting and the revelation of dodgy revenue accounting at the analytics software company.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Our footwear is especially in need of some TLC—all those miles of sightseeing, exploring new places outdoors, and sprinting to airport gates add up.
—Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2026
And a persistent center is sprinting into everyone.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
That set up the game-winner, Miller receiving the inbound pass on the Mustangs’ own end and sprinting to halfcourt before releasing the prayer.
—Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
Cutting, relocating, sprinting into space.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026
Energy experts say this trend shows how sharply the US and China are diverging on the energy transition, with China sprinting far ahead on renewables and EVs, while the US doubles down on drilling oil at home and abroad.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
After Murray assisted a Watson 3-pointer with seven seconds left, LeBron James tried sprinting coast-to-coast to beat the clock.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
Strategy was formerly known as MicroStrategy — going public in June 1998 at $10 a share — promptly sprinting up 31-fold to around $320 before sinking fast in the wake of the dot-com bubble bursting and the revelation of dodgy revenue accounting at the analytics software company.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Our footwear is especially in need of some TLC—all those miles of sightseeing, exploring new places outdoors, and sprinting to airport gates add up.
—Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2026
And a persistent center is sprinting into everyone.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
That set up the game-winner, Miller receiving the inbound pass on the Mustangs’ own end and sprinting to halfcourt before releasing the prayer.
—Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
Cutting, relocating, sprinting into space.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026
Energy experts say this trend shows how sharply the US and China are diverging on the energy transition, with China sprinting far ahead on renewables and EVs, while the US doubles down on drilling oil at home and abroad.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprinting
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The area is so nationally notorious that the Border Patrol chose it to stage an invasion here in July, complete with a literal cavalry of agents trotting down a soccer field where kids usually play while National Guard troops sat inside armored Humvees on Wilshire Boulevard.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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Starring Evan Peters, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Pope, Anthony Ramos and Ashton Kutcher, The Beauty explores the secret, privileged and dark realms of vanity and perfection-seeking within a globe-trotting crime thriller backdrop.—
Jeff Conway,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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With a dust and waterproof rating of IP57, the earbuds can also shrug off moisture and sweat, whether jogging in the rain or enduring a punishing workout.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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But commenters were also fascinated by a series of colorful graphs plotting dose-response curves for individual types of exercise, purporting to show that walking is the best, jogging is good but not too much, swimming is no good at all, and so on.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside,
30 Jan. 2026
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Columbus blanked the Blackhawks on their two power-play chances, running their string of futility to 26 man-advantages and 10 games without a goal.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
31 Jan. 2026
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On January 30, the 38-year-old pop star was photographed running an errand in a classic white t-shirt and baggy blue jeans, unbothered by the way her relaxed denim pooled around her thin flip-flops.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
31 Jan. 2026
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Advocates like Aiello are now racing to secure measures to avoid catastrophe before the frontier is closed.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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Their massive move also underscores how big donors are racing to back science-heavy, tech-centric projects such as peers like the Gates Foundation.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Sprinting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprinting. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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