run along

1. 1.

   be in line with; form a line along

   “trees line the riverbank”

   Synonymsline

   Broaderlie

   Narrowerrim

Questions about run along

What does run along mean?

run along means "be in line with; form a line along".

What is another word for run along?

Close synonyms include line. 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 run along a common word?

run along 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.