a way along which something runs.
a paved or cleared strip on which planes land and take off.
a similar strip on which cars, trucks, or the like may park, load, or enter the stream of traffic.
the beaten track or habitual path of deer or other wild animals.
a fairly large enclosure in which domestic animals may range about: a runway for dogs.
the bed of a stream.
a narrow platform or ramp extending from a stage into the orchestra pit or into an aisle, as in a theater.
I walked across the runway to the large hangar we were housed in.
Twice in the past two weeks, this has entailed meeting a plane on the runway to retriever sick passengers who may be infected.
That was when I started getting couture, kind of from the other side of the runway.
Trying to do it in a reusable rocket, landing on a runway, that system has a very bad track record.
He sets no more snares across that runway, for the rabbits have had their alarm.
The runway or yard should be as large as our purse will permit.
Those steers just naturally follow along on up that runway and into the killing pens.
Bowers and his helpers were crowding the sheep up the runway into the last car when Kate rode up.
"customary track of an animal," especially a deer, 1833, American English, from run (v.) + way. Meaning "artificial sloping track" is attested from 1883; airfield sense is from 1923.