The word run can mean several things:
- Running, moving swiftly on foot for exercise or sport
- A smoothly flowing part of a stream
- Execution (computers), begin operation of a computer program
- Run (cricket), the unit of scoring in the sport of Cricket
- Run (baseball), the unit of scoring in Baseball
- Bank run, a mass withdrawal by many people of money from a bank
- Run magazine, a computer magazine of the 1980s
- Run (movie), a 1991 action movie directed by Geoff Burrowes, starring Patrick Dempsey, Kelly Preston
- Run (island), one of the smallest Banda Islands
- Try to win an election for public office
- Joseph Simmons' stage name, of hip hop group Run-DMC
- Dance steps in Dance Dance Revolution, a video game
- Decamping, in a computer role-playing game, avoiding battle experience