Synonyms of running on

running on 1 of 2

adjective

as in holding up

Related Words

• holding up
• keeping up
• holding on
• lasting
• enduring
• abiding
• residual
• persisting
• lingering
• continuing
• staying
• sticking around
• perduring
• biding
• remaining
• leftover
• surviving
• carrying through
• tarrying
• prevailing

Dissimilar Words

• dying (down)
• letting up
• waning
• winding up
• subsiding
• moderating
• ebbing
• abating
• ending
• dying
• passing
• concluding
• finishing
• closing
• terminating
• stopping
• ceasing
• leaving off
• quitting
• lapsing
• expiring
• discontinuing
• desisting

running on

2 of 2

verb

present participle of run on

1

as in chatting

to engage in casual or rambling conversation

we were just running on about how neither of us has aged a bit after all these years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chatting
• talking
• conversing
• blowing smoke
• chewing the fat
• shooting the breeze
• rattling
• talking a blue streak
• chattering
• pattering
• prating
• discussing
• gabbing
• visiting
• rapping
• babbling
• nattering
• jabbering
• prattling
• schmoozing
• chinning
• gassing
• blabbing
• cackling
• gabbling
• kibitzing
• jawing
• twittering
• gossiping
• chaffering
• palavering
• tattling
• expatiating
• yapping
• yammering
• yakking
• descanting

2

as in remaining

to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state

allow the savings account to run on for now

Synonyms & Similar Words

• remaining
• continuing
• lasting
• holding on
• keeping up
• persisting
• staying
• holding up
• enduring
• surviving
• lingering
• abiding
• sticking around
• perduring
• carrying through
• prevailing
• biding
• tarrying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• winding up
• ending
• dying
• passing
• finishing
• closing
• stopping
• dying (down)
• concluding
• terminating
• expiring
• leaving off
• ceasing
• discontinuing
• lapsing
• quitting
• waning
• moderating
• desisting
• letting up
• subsiding
• ebbing
• abating

3

as in going on

to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point

she's very sweet, but she does tend to run on

Synonyms & Similar Words

• going on
• rambling
• blathering (on)
• rattling
• running one's mouth
• wandering
• maundering
• deviating
• straying
• chatting
• digressing
• sidetracking
• pattering
• chattering
• prating
• blithering
• gibbering
• blabbering
• waffling
• burbling
• gabbing
• drooling
• jabbering
• prattling
• blabbing
• driveling
• gabbling
• bumbling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of running on

Verb

In Michigan’s 10th district, Republican Michael Bouchard is running on his service as a Bronze Star Army captain and son of a longtime local sheriff. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

Susan Powers, a business owner and treasurer of the local chamber of commerce, is running on a platform of public transparency and promises to bring in new businesses and oppose tax hikes. — Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026

That is the daily huddles, the manager, the template and the twice-weekly reviews running on code. — Albert Mikkelsen, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

At the same time, a model developed using large computing clusters may ultimately need to operate in a clinic, school, robot or home device, which means running on much smaller hardware. — Bo Wang, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026

Only the cave paintings remain, flickering, filled with purple and brown rhinos, running on and on and running nowhere. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

All but one of the trophies presented at the 78th Emmy Awards on Monday went to a program running on a streaming platform. — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Machine learning algorithms running on computers on board the satellites will be able to detect incidents of potential interest and autonomously select significant images to send to the ground. — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026

An important milestone in this path is a fault-tolerant computer with over 100 million gates running on 200 qubits. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026