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"Runs", a game or a sport?

Hello!
I'm a portuguese translator and I'm currently working on a book where I'm having trouble with the exact meaning of "Runs" in the context used.

This paragraph refers to sports played in a british school in the beggining of the 20th century, in the twenties, more precisely. The author mentions rugger and cricket, and then says that he enjoyed "runs" because it allowed him to be alone in the solitude of the countryside.

I'm guessing something like a race, maybe?
I would really appreciate some help on this. Thanks in advance,

Elsa T. S. Vieira
  

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[nq:1]Hello! I'm a portuguese translator and I'm currently working on a book where I'm having trouble with the exact meaning ... [/nq] From the date, and the fact that "rugger" and cricket were played there, it's almost certainly a reference to cross-country running, which is a traditional sports activity at the sort of school (boarding and grammar schools, basically) that your text is probably describing.

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  • [nq:1]Hello!
  • I'm a portuguese translator and I'm currently working on a book where I'm having trouble with the exact meaning ...
  • [/nq] From the date, and the fact that "rugger" and cricket were played there, it's almost certainly a reference to cross-country running, which is a traditional sports activity at the sort of school (boarding and grammar schools, basically) that your text is probably describing.
  • Usually once a year, sometimes more often, each class of pupils would have to go on a "run" lasting several miles and usually taking up a whole afternoon of school time.
  • The route traditionally passes through lots of woodland and an essential obstacle, again traditionally lots of mud.
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[nq:1]Hello! I'm a portuguese translator and I'm currently working on a book where I'm having trouble with the exact meaning ... and then says that he enjoyed "runs" because it allowed him to be alone in the solitude of the countryside.[/nq]
From the date, and the fact that "rugger" and cricket were played there, it's almost certainly a reference to cross-country running, which is a traditiona
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It helps a great lot, it was the idea I had, but your explanation puts it in context and it makes perfect sense.
Many thanks!

Elsa T. S. Vieira
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[nq:1]Hello! I'm a portuguese translator and I'm currently working on a book where I'm having trouble with the exact meaning ... the countryside. I'm guessing something like a race, maybe? I would really appreciate some help on this. Thanks in advance,[/nq]
Cross country running. Or just along roads and lanes. 5 or 10 miles.

Mike

M.J.Powell
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[nq:1]Usually once a year, sometimes more often, each class of pupils would have to go on a "run" lasting several ... smokers, traditionally) at the back, who would have plenty of time to "be alone in the solitude of the countryside.[/nq]
The mud continued to be a tradition in the Australian version. At our school the cross-country run was always held in winter, usually in foul weather so that
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[nq:1]Now I live in a city, and my children have it soft. They swim in a (probably heated) swimming pool, ... sticks or rabbit-holes. They run on a properly laid out track. Are they better or worse off? I can't judge.[/nq]
There are perils everywhere. A friend of my son was warming up by running sprints along side of the rugby pitch. Barefooted. His toe became stuck in a sprinkler outlet. Damn
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[nq:1]There are perils everywhere. A friend of my son was warming up by running sprints along side of the rugby pitch.[/nq]
Oy! Are AmE rugby players so Anglophilic that they refer to a rugby "pitch", or is that just a Coopism?
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[nq:2]There are perils everywhere. A friend of my son was warming up by running sprints along side of the rugby pitch.[/nq]
[nq:1]Oy! Are AmE rugby players so Anglophilic that they refer to a rugby "pitch", or is that just a Coopism?[/nq]
That is the term. Only a New Yawker would Oy! it. You probably call it the rugby stoop in wife-beater land.
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[nq:1]Hello! I'm a portuguese translator and I'm currently working on a book where I'm having trouble with the exact meaning ... like a race, maybe? I would really appreciate some help on this. Thanks in advance, Elsa T. S. Vieira[/nq]
Not to be confused with "the runs" which have a totally different meaning.

Cheers, Sage
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lolol, Sage... Never crossed my mind, although when you think of it, it could also be something that might have allowed him to be alone in the quiet of the countryside ;-)

Elsa T. S. Vieira
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