on the run
Escaping from authorities
On the run describes someone fleeing or evading pursuit, especially from law enforcement: He's been on the run since escaping custody.
More loosely, it means hurrying from place to place without rest: I've been on the run all day.
Food eaten on the run is grabbed hastily between activities.
- eludingEscaping or avoiding skillfully
- huntedSought to capture
- fleeingRapid escape from danger
- abscondingDeparting secretly to evade
- on the lamEscaping from police
in the wind · evading · chased · fugitive · one step ahead · hiding · laying low · wanted · tracked · hurried · rushing · pursued · targeted · at large · on the move · sprinting · vanishing · off the grid
- Manhuntfugitive, manhunt, wanted poster, most wanted, pursuit
- fugitivesfugitive, escapee, escaped convict, prison escapee, absconder
- Escape Termsbreak free, get away, escape route, getaway, break out
- undergroundunderground, subterranean, cave systems, tunnels, tunnel
on the runin custody
Held by authorities
under arrest · apprehended · captured · behind bars · incarcerated
on the runstationary
Not in motion
settled · staying put · rooted · sedentary · anchored
run, runner, running, runs, run away, runaway, overrun, outrun, forerunner