road runner
Swift ground cuckoo
A road runner is a fast-running ground bird of the cuckoo family, native to the American Southwest and Mexico.
It sprints across desert terrain chasing lizards and snakes, rarely flying.
The cartoon Road Runner, perpetually chased by Wile E.
Coyote, made the bird iconic: We saw a road runner dart across the highway.
Also spelled roadrunner.
- desertTo leave behind completely
- painted desertMulticolored sedimentary wasteland
- New MexicoSouthwestern U.S. state
- cartoonAnimated or humorous illustration
- Saturday morningSixth day's early hours
Wile E Coyote · Looney Tunes · speed · dust · chase · mesa · cactus · sprint · feathers · bird legs · blur · Southwest · chaparral · zipping · plume · tail · legs · long tail
- Runnerssprinters, miler, hurdler, half marathoner, ultramarathoner