The word run can mean several things:

• Running, moving swiftly on foot for exercise, sport or fun.
• Run (film), a tamil film staaring R. Madhavan and Meera Jasmine
• 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 (Snow Patrol single), released by the band Snow Patrol
• Run (Cog single), released by the band Cog
• Run (baseball), the unit of scoring in baseball
• Run (American football), a synonym for an offensive rush in American football
• Bank run, a mass withdrawal by many people of money from a bank
• RUN, a computer magazine of the 1980s
• 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