running game

Questions about running game

What does running game mean?

running game means "(American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team".

What is another word for running game?

Close synonyms include run, running, running play. 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 running game a common word?

running game 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.