outrunner

[out-ruhn-er]

noun

1. a person or thing that runs ahead or outside.

2. an attendant who runs before or beside a carriage.

3. the leader of a team of dogs.

4. a forerunner.

outrunner

/ ˈaʊtˌrʌnə /

noun

1. an attendant who runs in front of a carriage, etc

2. the leading dog in a sled team

Word History and Origins

Origin of outrunner¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; out- + runner

Example Sentences

OutRunner The spiky-wheeled land cruiser, based on an unfunded Kickstarter project by former Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition scientists, can hit speeds of up to 20 miles per hour.

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OutRunner will come in two models: core and performance, Cotton said.

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OutRunner runs by rotating both sets of legs in time so that as a foot on one side is lifted, the one on the other is planted, much like how humans and many animals run.

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Though not yet commercially available, OutRunner has been featured online by Stuff magazine, Gizmag and the United Kingdom’s Daily Mail, among other publications.

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Cotton said he and his team have been working on OutRunner for about the past year and that he got the idea for the running robot after working on a bipedal robot project called FastRunner for the IHMC.

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