sprinting

verb

present participle of sprint
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 Brown was 4-for-4 on Iowa’s opening possession before sprinting for a 21-yard touchdown on a quarterback draw. — Luke Decock, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026 Brown was 4 for 4 on Iowa's opening possession before sprinting for a 21-yard touchdown on a quarterback draw. — ABC News, 7 Nov. 2026 Dieffenbach hits sprinting Florida transfer Aidan Mizell down the middle for a 75-yard touchdown pass. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026 In some seaside towns, brave locals take part in a Boxing Day dip—sprinting into the freezing sea to shake off the Christmas excesses, often while raising money for charity. — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026 The style is built to handle a full range of needs including lifting in the gym to sprinting, cutting, planting and changing direction. — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026 Daniels was sprinting in to take down Bears tight end Colston Loveland when his helmet smashed into Loveland’s knee. — Scott Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026 The deciding score came minutes later, with Florida’s star running back, Jadan Baugh, sprinting around the right side of the line. — Noah White, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026 Veterans Memorial responded quickly, with Patriots running back Donavin Watson sprinting up the middle on a 38-yard scoring run with over two minutes remaining in the first quarter. — David Dekunder, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprinting
  1. trotting
  2. jogging
  3. running
  4. racing
Verb
  • Quickley countered by trotting upcourt and sinking another 3 over the rookie.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Christiane Amanpour, who parlayed a job as a news assistant on CNN‘s foreign desk into a years-long globe-trotting assignment for the news giant, plans to step away from the media company in June.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of trotting
Verb
  • Less than an hour later, the same cameras showed Watson climbing out of the ambulance and jogging out of the tunnel at Lambeau Field, much to the surprise and delight of his teammates and the crowd.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Within seconds of the performance ending, the players were jogging back onto the floor.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of jogging
Verb
  • Restart support should cover the actual costs of resuming valuable work, with urgency for long-running studies, irreplaceable biological resources and teams at risk of dispersing.
    — Carole LaBonne, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Independent scrutiny remains PSI said David Turturean led the work, developing the research system, defining the problem and running the process.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of running
Verb
  • While robot dogs feel like old news now, setting them the challenge of racing up more than 3,000 uneven stone steps on the side of a mountain is more than just to show off what machines with legs can do.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Teacher tried to stop shooter before father arrived As Giamanco was racing toward the building, a teacher inside the school confronted the shooter in an effort to stop his progress.
    — Martha Bellisle, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of racing

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“Sprinting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprinting. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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