running time

American  

noun

1. Movies. the length or duration, usually expressed in minutes, of a feature film.

   The running time of the average film is 90–100 minutes.

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Etymology

Origin of running time

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Across a running time tied to the shifting seasons, pocked by images of breathtaking beauty, Pálmason is after a feeling that only patient observance yields: a lasting reality about the passing of relationships.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

Throughout the film’s hour and a half running time, Iwerks is making the argument that Disneyland simply wasn’t practical.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

And the additional running time also allows for two brand new songs -- one of which, "The Girl in the Bubble," sees Ariana Grande's popular, pink-clad heroine Glinda confront her unlikely dark past.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

And since the audience, which is admitted in groups of 60 at 15-minute intervals, will largely be standing or walking on varied surfaces during the two-hour running time, stilettos are forbidden.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Taking out the time spent at lunch and in taking on gasoline, we reached Los Olivos, two hundred and thirty-one miles from Hollister, in eleven hours' running time.

From Out of Doors—California and Oregon by Graves, J. A.