sprint
verb
[ sprɪnt ]
• run at full speed over a short distance.
• "I saw Charlie sprinting through the traffic towards me"
Similar:
run,
race,
dart,
rush,
dash,
hasten,
hurry,
scurry,
scuttle,
scamper,
hare,
bolt,
bound,
fly,
gallop,
career,
charge,
pound,
shoot,
hurtle,
speed,
streak,
whizz,
zoom,
go like lightning,
go hell for leather,
go like the wind,
flash,
tear,
pelt,
scoot,
hotfoot it,
belt,
zip,
whip,
go like a bat out of hell,
step on it,
get a move on,
get cracking,
put on some speed,
stir one's stumps,
hop it,
bomb,
go like the clappers,
leg it,
boogie,
hightail it,
barrel,
get the lead out,
cut along,
post,
hie,
sprint
noun
• an act or short spell of running at full speed.
• "Greg broke into a sprint"
• (especially in software development) a set period of time during which specific tasks must be completed.
• "team members discuss issues with each other at the end of every sprint"
Origin:
late 18th century (as a dialect term meaning ‘a bound or spring’): related to Swedish spritta .
