| 跑 | pǎo | to run; to escape; race |
| 跑道 | pǎo dào | athletic track; track; runway (i.e. airstrip) |
| 跑步 | pǎo bù | to walk quickly; to march; to run |
| 跑车 | pǎo chē | racing bicycle; sporting bicycle; sports car; logging truck; on the job (of a train conductor) |
| 跑垒 | pǎo lěi | running between bases (in baseball) |
| 跑马 | pǎo mǎ | horse race; to ride a horse at a fast pace; wet dream |
| 跑腿 | pǎo tuǐ | to run errands |
| 跑遍 | pǎo biàn | to go everywhere; to scour (the whole town) |
跑了和尚，
跑不了寺 | pǎo le hé shàng ,
pǎo bù liǎo sì | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom); you can run this time, but you'll have to come back; I'll get you sooner or later |
跑了和尚，
跑不了庙 | pǎo le hé shàng ,
pǎo bù liǎo miào | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom); you can run this time, but you'll have to come back; I'll get you sooner or later |
| 跑出 | pǎo chū | to run out |
| 跑味 | pǎo wèi | to lose flavor |
| 跑味儿 | pǎo wèir | to lose flavor |
| 跑堂 | pǎo táng | waiter (old) |
| 跑堂儿的 | pǎo tángr de | waiter |
| 跑垒员 | pǎo lěi yuán | runner (in baseball) |
跑得了和尚，
跑不了庙 | pǎo dé liǎo hé shàng ,
pǎo bù liǎo miào | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom); you can run this time, but you'll have to come back; I'll get you sooner or later |
| 跑掉 | pǎo diào | to run away |
| 跑步者 | pǎo bù zhě | runner |
| 跑江湖 | pǎo jiāng hú | to make a living as a traveling performer etc |
| 跑法 | pǎo fǎ | running style; racing technique |
| 跑神儿 | pǎo shénr | absent-minded; one's mind is wandering |
| 跑腿儿 | pǎo tuǐr | to run errands |
| 跑调 | pǎo diào | to be off-key or out of tune (while singing) (colloquial) |
| 跑警报 | pǎo jǐng bào | to run for shelter |
| 跑走 | pǎo zǒu | to escape; to flee; to run away |
| 跑跑颠颠 | pǎo pǎo diān diān | to work hectically; to be on the go; to run around attending to various tasks |
| 跑酷 | pǎo kù | parkour, French sport invented by David Belle in 1980s, with the aim of efficiently traversing obstacles in the environment |
| 跑表 | pǎo biǎo | stopwatch |
| 跑电 | pǎo diàn | electrical leakage |
| 跑鞋 | pǎo xié | running shoes |
| 跑题 | pǎo tí | to digress; to stray from the topic |
| 跑马圈地 | pǎo mǎ quān dì | rushing to stake one's claim in new markets |
| 跑马地 | Pǎo mǎ dì | Happy Valley (suburb of Hong Kong) |
| 跑马山 | Pǎo mǎ shān | Paoma Mountain, or Lhamotse Mountain, in Kangding康定, Sichuan四川 |
| 跑马厅 | pǎo mǎ tīng | horse racing track; racetrack |
| 跑龙套 | pǎo lóng tào | to play a small role |
