I have recently encountered this construction:

> 雪{ゆき}が降{ふ}りに降{ふ}っていました

Someone translated it as "The snow was falling in waves."

After some research, I discovered similar constructions with repeated verbs,
such as:

> 荒{あ}れに荒{あ}れる

like in this example from weblio:

> あらしは荒{あ}れに荒{あ}れてようやくやんだ。At last the storm raved itself out.

or this:

> 走{はし}りに走{はし}る

I was wondering if it was some grammar pattern I didn't run into before and
what exactly it means? Are there more similar constructions with repeated
verbs? How common are they?

Is it at all similar to the construction

> Verb-stem + に行く = to go to do...

I mean in the grammatical function of the parts - that is, the first verb is
the purpose/target of the second verb?

My first instinct was to translate 雪{ゆき}が降{ふ}りに降{ふ}っていました as "The snow was
falling and falling" and 走{はし}りに走{はし}る as "to run and run" but it feels
incomplete somehow...
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repeated verb in 雪が降りに降っていました