base runner

1. 1.

   a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

   Synonymsrunner

   Broaderballplayer

   baseball

Questions about base runner

What does base runner mean?

base runner means "a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)".

What is another word for base runner?

Close synonyms include runner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is base runner a common word?

base runner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.