end run

1. 1.

   (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line

   Synonymssweep

   Broaderrun

   American football

Questions about end run

What does end run mean?

end run means "(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line".

What is another word for end run?

Close synonyms include sweep. 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 end run a common word?

end run is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.