running away
Escaping on foot
Running away is fleeing or escaping from a place, situation, or responsibility.
A child who runs away leaves home without permission: She ran away when she was fifteen.
Adults run away from problems, relationships, or consequences they don't want to face.
The phrase often implies avoidance rather than confrontation: You can't keep running away from your feelings.
- fleeingRapid escape from danger
- boltingDeparting at speed
- abscondingDeparting secretly to evade
- skedaddleDepart hastily, often fearfully
- escapeFlight from captivity
elopement · fugitive · skipping town · hightail · leave · abandoning · decamping · flight · ghosting · vamoosing · hitting the road · break loose · estranging · cold feet · shirking · coward · shadows · sprint
- avoidanceavoidance, distancing, evasion, dodging, withdrawal
- cowardicecoward, cowardly, craven, gutless, spineless
- evasionevasion, avoiding, avoids, evade, dodging
- escape responsesfleeing, flight, escaping, escape, hiding
- Slave Resistanceslave rebellion, revolt, uprising, insurrection, runaways
- Youth Riskspeer pressure, bullying, underage drinking, drug use, teen pregnancy
running awaystanding ground
Refusing to yield position
standing one's ground · facing up to · confronting · fighting back · facing
running awayapproaching
Coming toward something
advancing · charging · closing in · moving in · pursuing
running awaystaying put
Remaining in place
remaining · staying · standing by · standing still · sticking around
away, runner, running, runs, runaway, outrun, runners, outrunning, outruns