adj

• (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
  "a running vine"
• (medicine) Discharging pus.
  "a running sore"
• (medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
  "a running nose"

adv

• (informal) Consecutively; in a row.
  "Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running."

noun

• (colloquial) The act of running errands.
  "I'm gonna go out and do my running."
• (physics) The dependence of measured value, typically a coupling constant, on the energy scale at which it is probed due to higher-order interaction terms and associated renormalization issues becoming relevant; metaphorically, the "running" of the measurement from its limiting macroscopic value.

prep

• (colloquial) Approaching; about; roughly.