Lexic.us

Definition of Road runner

1. Noun. Someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Road Runner

Literary usage of Road runner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"WS Bryant on Food of the Road-runner in California.2— In 1911 and 1912 when ... The primary object of this investigation of the Road-runner was to learn the ..."

2. Campfires on Desert and Lava by William Temple Hornaday (1908)
"CHAPTER XXIII NOVEMBER BIRD LIFE IN THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN The Disappointing Road-Runner—Gambel s Quail and Its Pursuit The Wisdom of the Cactus Wren—The ..."

3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1862)
"road runner, a translation of the Spanish name ... It is called road runner from its frequenting the highways, along which it runs faster than the fleetest ..."

4. The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances by John Charles Van Dyke (1901)
"The road-runner is one of the mildest-looking and ... Innocent- looking birds with savage instincts. The road- runner. ..."

5. The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances by John Charles Van Dyke (1907)
"The road-runner is one of the mildest-looking and most graceful birds of the desert, ... Innocent- looking birds with savage instincts. The road- runner. ..."

6. Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians by Junius Henderson, John Peabody Harrington (1914)
"The footprints of the road-runner resemble a letter X. They are called by the same term as ... Hodge gives as Road-runner clans of various pueblos: Laguna, ..."

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