run-about

“Phew!” he started to mutter a thought aloud, then suspended utterance and thought as he jumped the racer from forty-five to seventy miles an hour, swept past to the left of a horse and buggy going in the same direction, and slanted back to the right side of the road with margin to spare but seemingly under the nose of a run-about coming from the opposite direction.

CHAPTER XXV 2010

One of Mr D's thatched cottages and the little convertible run-about he uses when he's in residence

2009 December « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

The boat Ray actually owned in 1984 was a used Bayliner run-about.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

One of Mr D's thatched cottages and the little convertible run-about he uses when he's in residence

Coming soon – my stand-out memories of the Noughties… « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

So we parked the car and rang up our host, who came across in his run-about to collect Holly while Katie paddled her surf-ski and I wind-surfed across.

Journal for 12 January 1999 Alex Allan 2009

He traded in an older Bayliner run-about for a fine brand-new runabout with good seats and a Yamaha out-board, but sold it back to the dealer at a loss to help Maryann meet a loan payment.38 He chose his next boat—a classic Carver—for its name, but then lent it to Morris Bond for his commute to a winter logging job.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

The run-about continued forward on its own momentum, Nog unable to control the vessel's movements any longer.

Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

It was, on the face of it, a stupid way to go: only a few thousand kilometers from Deep Space 9, in a run-about, under fire from an unknown ship.

Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

She couldn't afford to slow the run-about down, as any moment ...

Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

Which means that this run-about is a big duranium bomb about to go off.

Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001