sprint

verb

ˈsprint How to pronounce sprint (audio)
Definition of sprintnext
as in to jog
to go at a pace faster than a walk he sprinted off to class so as to avoid being late

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Recent Examples of sprint Last week, Achord sprinted almost the entire length of Melton’s kick return alongside one of the team’s fastest players. — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Instead, these robots were engineered to accomplish just one task, as shown by the fact that the running robots sprinted in a straight line and could not even slow down by continuing around the track after the finish line. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2026 The results do not mean that sprint workouts and other forms of high-intensity interval training, or HIIT, are better than moderate exercise where your heart rate remains at a steady level. — Will Stone, NPR, 24 Aug. 2026 As many as 90,000 residents in northwest Reno and Nevada’s North Valleys were under evacuation warnings or orders to flee after the Hawk Fire sprinted across the Sierra County line and into northern Nevada. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sprint
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprint
  1. jog
  2. trot
  3. run
  4. race
  5. gallop
  6. speed
Verb
  • First inning, Shohei Ohtani walks, steals second, jogs to third on a single by Freddie Freeman, scores on a grounder by Mookie Betts.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
  • With his team trailing in the bottom of the 10th inning, Contreras grounded out to third and was once again booed after jogging down the line.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of jog
Verb
  • Donald Steven Lang, 62, was taken into custody over the weekend at the request of the United States, federal authorities said Tuesday, ending a far-reaching search for the globe-trotting sailor.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The next day, Magglio Ordóñez trotted right by him on his way around the bases after his pennant-clinching home run.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of trot
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  • Stone ran for three touchdowns, including an 85-yarder late in the first half.
    — Mike McGraw, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Sebold’s was the third such attack in Thornden Park, which runs alongside the campus, in about seven months.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of run
Verb
  • Dustin Arnold, were racing as fast as 120 mph in order to get to the scene.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In the span of less than a week this July, surgeons at a Southern California hospital raced to save the lives of two women suffering from alarmingly similar brain hemorrhages.
    — Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of race
Verb
  • One gang wears football pads as armor and comes galloping in on horses, whooping like the Apaches in a John Ford movie.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The house had been a grand property in another era, complete with Welsh ponies whose riders once galloped through the surrounding woods.
    — Sara Ruffin Costello, Architectural Digest, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of gallop
Verb
  • Officers said Rodriguez sped out of the lot and fled the scene.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The next day, his rebuild group met, and one of the architects brought up prefabricated housing as an option to speed things along.
    — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of speed

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“Sprint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprint. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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