All runner synonyms

noun runner

• contender — A contender is someone who takes part in a competition.
• herald — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
• base runner — any member of the team at bat who has reached first, second, or third base safely or is trying to reach a base or home plate
• jogger — a person who jogs.
• baseburner — a stove into which coal is automatically fed from a hopper above the fire chamber
• racer — a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race, as a racehorse, bicycle, yacht, etc.
• courier — A courier is a person who is paid to take letters and parcels direct from one place to another.
• crier — a person or animal that cries
• bearer — The bearer of something such as a message is the person who brings it to you.
• internuncio — a papal ambassador ranking next below a nuncio.
• messenger — a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, especially as a matter of duty or business.
• bidder — A bidder is someone who offers to pay a certain amount of money for something that is being sold. If you sell something to the highest bidder, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it.
• intelligencer — a person or thing that conveys information.
• nominee — a person nominated, as to run for elective office or fill a particular post.
• drogher — a freight barge of the West Indies, rigged as a cutter or schooner.
• carpet — A carpet is a thick covering of soft material which is laid over a floor or a staircase.
• mover — a person or thing that moves.
• carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
• candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
• handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
• commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
• gopher — an employee whose chief duty is running errands.
• outrider — a mounted attendant riding before or beside a carriage.
• dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
• mat — a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
• favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
• marathoner — a runner who competes in a marathon.
• climber — A climber is someone who climbs rocks or mountains as a sport or a hobby.
• creeper — Creepers are plants with long stems that wind themselves around objects.
• conveyor — a person or thing that conveys
• gofer — an employee whose chief duty is running errands.